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Queering The Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms In The Filipina/O Diaspora., Gina Velasco
Queering The Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms In The Filipina/O Diaspora., Gina Velasco
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
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 …