Between Woman and Nation

Caren Kaplan is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, also published by Duke University Press.Norma AlarcÓn is Professor of Women’s Studies, Ethinic Studies, Spanish, and Portuguese at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of NinfomanÍa.Minoo Moallem is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at San Francisco State University.

"A signal contribution to our current understanding of the gendered politics of national and global economies of desire, labour, capital, and representation. Though the question of woman and/in the nation is not new, it has never before been engaged on such a scale or with such an attentiveness to diverse disciplines, media, and theoretical positions."-Parama Roy, author of Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India "This is a superb collection, deftly edited and wonderfully argued. Individually, the contributors expand the scope of transnationality studies to include the Middle East and Latin America. The volume as a whole focuses on important analytics: gendered imaginaries in nationalism, regulatory practices, and globablized feminism. The editors' argument for immanent critique is a useful contribution to thinking and teaching feminism in an international frame."-Tani E. Barlow, University of Washington

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Between Woman and Nation / Norma Alarcon, Caren Kaplan, and Minoo MoallemI. Whose Imagined Community?El desorden, Nationalism, and Chicana/o Aesthetics / Laura Elisa PerezBloody Metaphors and Other Allegories of the Ordinary / Elspeth ProbynChicana Feminism: In the Tracks of "The" Native Woman / Norma AlarconRe-Imagining Chicana Urban Identities in the Public Sphere, Cool Chuca Style / Rosa Linda FregosoA Guest at the Wedding: Honor, Memory, and (National) Desire in Michel Khleife's Wedding in Galilee / Mary N. LayounII. The Production of Nationness: Reading Regulatory PracticesSeduction and the Ruses of Power / Saidiya HartmanFrom Nation-Church to Nation-State: Evolving Sex-Gender Relations in Quebec Society / Danielle JuteauWomen Between Nation and State in Lebanon / Suad JosephRelational Positionalities of Nationalisms, Racisms, and Feminisms / Daiva K. StasiulisFeminism-in-Nationalism: The Gendered Subaltern at the Yucatan Feminist Congresses of 1916 / Emma PerezIII. Transnational Subjects of Feminism: Critical Interventions in an Era of GlobalizationMulticultural Nationalism and the Poetics of Inauguration / Minoo Moallem and Iain A. Boal"Chicana! Rican? No, Chicana Riquena!" Refashioning the Transnational Connection / Angie Chabram-DernersesianFabricating Masculinity: Gender, Race, and Nation in a Transnational Frame / Dorinne KondoTransnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism / Minoo MoallemTransnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructuralism/Feminism Divides / Caren Kaplan and Inderpal GrewalWorks CitedIndexContributors