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Journal Article
positions (2019) 27 (4): 713–737.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the domains of choice of spouse, food, and dress. While tradition and modernity are conceptualized as binaries, the single women in these novels seem to be wrestling with a way of articulating a selfhood without having to pick a side. In their refusal to conform to ideas of Indian selfhood wherein...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 321–349.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... Status shame for the wife-in-monogamy becomes reconstituted into stigmatic sex in new emergent social subjects and practices, such as mistresses and live-in migrant domestic maids, sex workers and predatory single urban professional women, adulterous women and men, promiscuous sex, commercial sex...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 71–96.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of the industry documented by the analysis include the recruitment of women from other provinces in the study location to marry a foreigner and matchmaking services for single men facing difficulties finding a spouse, given the current local demographic context. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in four...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 815–840.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt Against the background of the decades-long international relations dispute over Japan’s wartime military “comfort women” system, this article explores one of the scant literary representations of comfort women in Japanese literature. Through a close reading of Yū Miri’s...
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positions (2008) 16 (2): 329–358.
Published: 01 May 2008
... single women who found themselves unmarried and
childless after the Indochina wars.2 Forced to abandon their prewar dreams
of finding conjugal love, the women engaged in a novel reproductive strat-
egy to create families of their own. A small...
Journal Article
positions (1996) 4 (2): 381–414.
Published: 01 May 1996
... writing is the allegedly wide-
spread emergence of lovers (qingren). As used in China today, the term
“lover” encompasses people in a variety of situations. In most cases it refers
to men or women, either married or single, who...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (1): 173–182.
Published: 01 February 2012
... without any back-
ground or strength in economics. As an anthropologist, I stumbled on this
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subject from my empirical studies of single women’s desires and practices...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of access to birth control often
slide into more general claims about knowledge or character. A woman who
runs a shelter for single pregnant women summed it up: “They lack culture,
their educational level isn’t high.” The mothers who give up...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (3): 607–632.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of a Neoliberal Welfare Society . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Song Jesook . 2014 . Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea . Albany : State University of New York Press . Stockton Kathryn Bong . 2009 . The Queer...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 551–579.
Published: 01 August 2021
... families we leave out alternative family arrangements, such as women and men who originally bore children in heterosexual marriages or who became parents through adoption, those who parent as singles, or gay couples who have children through international surrogacy (see Brainer, this issue). And we...
Journal Article
positions (2006) 14 (1): 37–66.
Published: 01 February 2006
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from home and leave their children? Mothers cannot be that irresponsible.
Women who do that could only be insane. And in the case of single women,
they can live by selling their bodies [i.e., as prostitutes/sex workers]. So why
would...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
...: Single Women, Sexuality, and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia . London : Routledge Curzon . Bessell Sharon , Beazley Harriot , and Waterson Roxana . 2016 . “ Methodology and Ethics of Child-Rights-Oriented Research and Practice .” In “Children Out of Place...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (2): 277–306.
Published: 01 May 1999
... for women in East Asia.
Three Visions of Globalization
Francis Fukuyama claims that the “West is best” in terms of history and
economy.4 He asserts that all countries will follow invariably a single path
of development toward liberal...
Journal Article
positions (2013) 21 (1): 73–93.
Published: 01 February 2013
... as Japanese.6 But what
did all this mean for women who were not yet wives and mothers, that
is, unmarried women of the Japanese settler community in Korea? In a
quite literal way, these single women were “daughters of the empire” (nihon...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (2): 263–278.
Published: 01 May 2008
....
The genealogy of official discourses on love, interestingly, helps Phinney
make sense of unorthodox practices of love in everyday life, particularly
how and why older single women are able to justify bearing children out of
wedlock...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 529–558.
Published: 01 May 2012
...
beliefs about the importance of preserving the connection between a child
and its birth mother.42 Single women needed to have their own viable ova, as
donor ova were available only to married couples in need of them. Vietnam-
ese donor gametes...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... world “rights,” she provides a pathway to reproductive
justice for Korean women. The film reveals how even Korean feminisms,
their middle-class focus, have not dealt sufficiently with issues that concern
working-class women, single women...
Journal Article
positions (2013) 21 (2): 309–350.
Published: 01 May 2013
... have pointed
out that the gender divide was more strictly maintained during military
mobilization in Japan than in the United States or Europe.52 Single women
were organized in munitions factories during the last phase of the war only...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (3): 581–606.
Published: 01 August 2021
... version (White 2018 ). The requirement for each koseki to be identified by a single surname is, of course, not an ancient tradition, but rather a modern creation, developed in the Meiji era in tandem with the Koseki Law. For women in Japan today who do not want to change their names upon marriage...
Journal Article
positions (1997) 5 (2): 467–489.
Published: 01 May 1997
... lesbians and gay men but extends
to all those who cannot be located within the strict confines of middle-class
heteronormativity: prostitutes, those who are HIV infected, and working-
class and single women, for in~tance.1~“Perversion...
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