Global identities: Theorizing transnational studies of sexuality

GLQ

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 663-679

  Grewal, Inderpal ^a   Kaplan, Caren ^a  

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EID: 0043276102     PISSN: 10642684     EISSN: 15279375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10642684-7-4-663     Document Type: Article

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12. See Lisa Rofel, "Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities in China," GLQ 5 (1999): 451 -74.
13. See Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc, eds., Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States (Langhorne, Pa.: Gordon and Breach, 1994).
14. See Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999);
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16. Scott Lash and John Urry, Economies of Signs and Space (London: Sage, 1994).
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19. See Hannerz, Transnational Connections.
20. Victoria Bernal, "The Nation and the World: Reflections on Nationalism in a Transnational Era," unpublished manuscript, 2001.
21. This usage is evident at conferences such as the American Studies Association meetings, as well as other meetings of humanities or social science academic organizations such as the American Anthropological Association. See also David L. Eng, Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001).
22. See Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).
23. See Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996).
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25. We take this phrase from Sabine Lang, "The NGOization of Feminism," in Transitions, Translations, Environments: Feminisms in International Politics, ed. Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan, and Debra Keates (New York: Routledge, 1997), 101-20.
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27. Although The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Bar- ale, and David M. Halperin (New York: Routledge, 1993), broke new ground in important ways, many of the essays in it focus on this approach to gender diversity. Since then, other publications have attempted to address this problem. See Gerald Hunt, ed., Laboring for Rights: Unions and Sexual Diversity across Nations (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999); Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed, eds., Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life (New York: Routledge, 1997); Erica Rand, Barbie's Queer Accessories (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995); Donald Morton, ed., The Material Queer: A LesBiGay Cultural Studies Reader (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1996); and Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo, eds., The Gender/ Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy (New York: Routledge, 1997).
28. For a trenchant critique of such work see Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "French Feminism in an International Frame," in In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (New York: Routledge, 1988), 134-53.
29. For instance, in the context of South Asian studies see the work of Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983).
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33. Many writers have pointed out that analyses of race are often absent from works by gay and lesbian scholars. See Audre Lorde, Sister/Outsider (Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing, 1984); bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (Boston: South End, 1990); and Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Watertown, Mass.: Persephone, 1981). An example of work that does not address the relation between sexuality and race or ethnicity is Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty, eds., Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995). In the very influential Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, most of the essays focus on Europe and North America, although some address the relationship among sexuality, sexual identities, and race. Lancaster and di Leonardo's anthology The Gender/Sexuality Reader provides a more cross-cultural perspective.
34. See Patton and Sánchez-Eppler, Queer Diasporas; Emilie L. Bergmann and Paul Julian Smith, eds., »Entiendes? Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995);
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41. See Olivia Espin, Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality (New York: Routledge, 1999).
42. See Inderpal Grewal, Transnational America: Gender, Nation, and Diaspora (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming).
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