Metroimperial Intimacies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metroimperial Intimacies write by Victor Román Mendoza. This book was released on 2015-12-17. Metroimperial Intimacies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects. The real and imagined intimacies—whether expressed through friendship, love, or eroticism—threatened U.S. gender and sexuality norms. To codify U.S. heteronormative behavior, the colonial government prohibited anything loosely defined as perverse, which along with popular representations of Filipinos, regulated colonial subjects and depicted them as sexually available, diseased, and degenerate. Mendoza analyzes laws, military records, the writing of Philippine students in the United States, and popular representations of Philippine colonial subjects to show how their lives, bodies, and desires became the very battleground for the consolidation of repressive legal, economic, and political institutions and practices of the U.S. colonial state. By highlighting the importance of racial and gendered violence in maintaining control at home and abroad, Mendoza demonstrates that studies of U.S. sexuality must take into account the reach and impact of U.S. imperialism.
Policing Sexuality
Policing Sexuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Policing Sexuality write by Jessica R. Pliley. This book was released on 2014-11-03. Policing Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jessica Pliley links the crusade against sex trafficking to the FBI’s growth into a formidable law agency that cooperated with states and municipalities in pursuit of offenders. The Bureau intervened in squabbles on behalf of men intent on monitoring their wives and daughters and imprisoned prostitutes while seldom prosecuting their male clients.
Wombs in Labor
Wombs in Labor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wombs in Labor write by Amrita Pande. This book was released on 2014-09-23. Wombs in Labor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on how reproduction meets production in surrogacy and how this reflects characteristics of India's larger labor system. Pande's interviews prove surrogates are more than victims of disciplinary power, and she examines the strategies they deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. While some women are coerced into the business by their families, others negotiate with clients and their clinics to gain access to technologies and networks otherwise closed to them. As surrogates, the women Pande meets get to know and make the most of advanced medical discoveries. They traverse borders and straddle relationships that test the boundaries of race, class, religion, and nationality. Those who focus on the inherent inequalities of India's surrogacy industry believe the practice should be either banned or strictly regulated. Pande instead advocates for a better understanding of this complex labor market, envisioning an international model of fair-trade surrogacy founded on openness and transparency in all business, medical, and emotional exchanges.
The Unsafe Sex
The Unsafe Sex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unsafe Sex write by Nalini Natarajan. This book was released on 2016. The Unsafe Sex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication provides a socio-historical and cultural context to explain why public violence against women is rooted in the binary within which they are viewed - women as, ideally, a source of dignity within the home, while being a source of shame outside it. Drawing from anthropology, myths, literature and film, history, sociology of class and change, and feminist theory, this book explores the reasons underlying a glaring fissure in our public life - cruelty towards women in public places.
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020: Volume 4
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020: Volume 4 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020: Volume 4 write by Betsy Huang. This book was released on 2021-06-17. Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020: Volume 4 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1996 to the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror and militarization, economic depression, and environmental abuse, but also unprecedented growth and visibility of Asian American literature. This volume is divided into four sections that plots the trajectories of, and tensions between, social challenges and literary advances. Part One tracks how Asian American literary productions of this period reckon with the effects of structures and networks of violence. Part Two tracks modes of intimacy – desires, loves, close friendships, romances, sexual relations, erotic contacts – that emerge in the face of neoimperialism, neoliberalism, and necropolitics. Part Three traces the proliferation of genres in Asian American writing of the past quarter century in new and in well-worn terrains. Part Four surveys literary projects that speculate on future states of Asian America in domestic and global contexts.
