Gendered Citizenships Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture

by Caldwell, Kia Lilly; Ramirez, Renya K.; Coll, Kathleen; Fisher, Tracy; Siu, Lok

• ISBN13: 9780230619852
• ISBN10: 0230619851
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and uses them as a point of departure for rethinking contemporary practices of social inclusion and belonging. Drawing on ethnographic research with diverse communities in the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, contributors argue for the importance of understanding how notions of belonging and entitlement are locally experienced and subjectively defined by members of marginalized communities. Through analysis of intersectional racial/ethnic, gender, class, and national/tribal identities, the essays place the experiences and analyses of women of color and Third World women at the very center of our understanding of citizenship.

Author Biography

Kia Lilly Caldwell is Assistant Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and Adjunct Faculty of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kathleen Coll is Lecturer in Anthropology and Feminist Studies at Stanford University.

Tracy Fisher is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Renya K. Ramirez is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Lok Siu is Associate Professor of Anthropology and and Cultural Analysis and Director of the  Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program at New York University.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction Collectivity and Comparativity: A Feminist Approach to Citizenship The Gender and Cultural Citizenship Working Group	p. 1
Political Activism and Organizing
Autoestima in Immigrant Latina Community Organizing Politicizing Self-Esteem, Personalizing Politics	p. 19
Zones of Autonomy: Gendered Cultural Citizenship and Indigenous Women's Organizing in Mexico	p. 39
Black Women, Cultural Citizenship, and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil	p. 55
Gender, Diaspora, and Transnationalism
Inappropriate/Appropriated Feelings: The Gendered Construction of Transnational Citizenship	p. 75
Transgressing the Nation-State: The Partial Citizenship and "Imagined (Global) Community" of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers	p. 89
Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, Engendering Diaspora	p. 109
Narratives of Belonging
Gender, College, and Cultural Citizenship: A Case Study of Mexican-Heritage Students in Higher Education	p. 137
Gender, Belonging, and Native American Women: The Activism of Cecelia Fire Thunder and Sarah Deer	p. 157
Sex in the Nation: White Women, Brown Babies, and the Politics of Belonging	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 191
Contributors	p. 211
Index	p. 215
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