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Queering the Global Filipina Body:

Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora
  • ISBN-13: 9780252085376
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Gina K. Velasco
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2020
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Ethnic studies [JFSL]
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Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization.
 
Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production  to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital instruments of struggle.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Global Filipina Body
Chapter 1. Mapping Diasporic Nationalisms: The Filipina/o American Balikbayan in the Philippines
Chapter 2. Imagining the Filipina Trafficked Woman/Sex Worker: The Politics of Filipina/o American Solidarity
Chapter 3. Performing the Filipina Mail Order Bride: Queer Neoliberalism, Affective Labor, and Homonationalism
Chapter 4. El Otro Encuentro: Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa's “Neo-Queer Precolonial Imagininga
Conclusion: Queer Necropolitics and the Afterlife of U.S. Imperialism
Notes
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"A rich analysis of the transnational circuits of culture, labor, goods, and ideology circulating around the material and symbolic body of the Filipina. With its uniquely nuanced documentation and theorization of multiple, competing nationalisms, this book clear-sightedly accounts, on the one hand, for heteropatriarchy within the Filipino diaspora and, on the other hand, the limits of queer white definitions of desire and liberation."--Sarita See, author of The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance
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