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Offers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to
deal with pain What can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative
and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending
work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu
Saraswati provides thought-provoking theories and life-transforming
ways to understand pain, specifically in relation to feminism.
Arguing that pain is not merely a state we are in, Scarred reframes
pain as a "transnational feminist object," something that we can
carry across international borders. Drawing on her own experience
traveling across twenty countries within just over a year,
Saraswati aims to bring readers along on her journey so that they
might ask themselves, "How can I live with pain differently?" By
using pain as a lens of feminist analysis, Scarred allows us to
chart how power produces and operates through pain, and how pain is
embodied and embedded in relationships. Saraswati provides a
heartfelt and engaging recount of her experiences while also
pushing the boundaries of the respective fields her story engages
with. She allows for renewed academic and personal insights to
blossom by using a blend of transnational feminist theory, travel
studies, and pain studies. Ultimately, Scarred invites us to
reframe pain and ask how might we carry it in a more humane,
life-sustaining, enchanting, and feminist way.
Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism
Social media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist
activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of
pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence, and abuse,
Asian American and Asian Canadian feminist icons such as rupi kaur,
Margaret Cho, and Mia Matsumiya have turned to social media to
share their stories with the world. But how does such activism
reconcile with the platforms on which it is being cultivated, when
its radical messaging is at total odds with the neoliberal logic
governing social media? Pain Generation troubles this phenomenon by
articulating a "neoliberal self(ie) gaze" through which these
feminist activistssee and storify the self on social media as
"good" neoliberal subjects who are appealing, inspiring, and
entertaining. This book offers a fresh perspective on feminist
activism by demonstrating how the problematic neoliberal logic
governing digital spaces like Instagram and Twitter limits the
possibilities of how one might use social media for feminist
activism.
Offers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to
deal with pain What can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative
and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending
work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu
Saraswati provides thought-provoking theories and life-transforming
ways to understand pain, specifically in relation to feminism.
Arguing that pain is not merely a state we are in, Scarred reframes
pain as a “transnational feminist object,” something that we
can carry across international borders. Drawing on her own
experience traveling across twenty countries within just over a
year, Saraswati aims to bring readers along on her journey so that
they might ask themselves, “How can I live with pain
differently?” By using pain as a lens of feminist analysis,
Scarred allows us to chart how power produces and operates through
pain, and how pain is embodied and embedded in relationships.
Saraswati provides a heartfelt and engaging recount of her
experiences while also pushing the boundaries of the respective
fields her story engages with. She allows for renewed academic and
personal insights to blossom by using a blend of transnational
feminist theory, travel studies, and pain studies. Ultimately,
Scarred invites us to reframe pain and ask how might we carry it in
a more humane, life-sustaining, enchanting, and feminist way.
As women's studies departments and programs undergo rapid
transformation in higher education, there has been a burgeoning
demand for instructional material that addresses feminist and queer
studies at all levels in the curricula. Feminist and Queer Theory:
An Intersectional and Transnational Reader reflects this vibrantly
expanding field and meets the urgent need for theory courses.
Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational
Reader is not simply a feminist theory text that includes queer
theories; rather, it theorizes at the intersection of feminist and
queer theories, and by doing so, transforms and reshapes the
boundaries of the fields. The book invites students to think
critically about the limitations of understanding feminist theory
as separate, but tangentially related, to queer theory and moves
them beyond transnationalism as "additive" to U.S.-centered
intersectional perspectives. The book frames feminist and queer
inquiry as being articulated through each other and within a global
context. It also provide new voices-scholarly, activist, and
creative-inside and outside the U.S. that are shaping the field and
selections that highlight the importance of im/migration and
borders as well as science, technology, and digital cultures.
In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout
recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's
changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences:
first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving
Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the
impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime occupation of Japan;
and finally, in the post-colonial period, to the popularity of
American culture. The book shows how the transnational circulation
of people, images, and ideas have shaped and shifted discourses and
hierarchies of race, gender, skin colour, and beauty in Indonesia.
The author employs "affect" theories and feminist cultural studies
as a lens through which to analyse a vast range of materials,
including the Old Javanese epic poem Ramayana, archival materials,
magazine advertisements, commercial products, and numerous
interviews with Indonesian women. The book offers a rich repertoire
of analytical and theoretical tools that allow readers to rethink
issues of race and gender in a global context and understand how
feelings and emotions--Western constructs as well as Indian,
Javanese, and Indonesian notions such as rasa and malu-contribute
to and are constitutive of transnational and gendered processes of
racialisation. Saraswati argues that it is how emotions come to be
attached to certain objects and how they circulate that shape the
"emotionscape" of white beauty in Indonesia. Her ground-breaking
work is a nuanced theoretical exploration of the ways in which
representations of beauty and the emotions they embody travel
geographically and help shape attitudes and beliefs toward race and
gender in a transnational world.
Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism
Social media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist
activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of
pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence, and abuse,
Asian American and Asian Canadian feminist icons such as rupi kaur,
Margaret Cho, and Mia Matsumiya have turned to social media to
share their stories with the world. But how does such activism
reconcile with the platforms on which it is being cultivated, when
its radical messaging is at total odds with the neoliberal logic
governing social media? Pain Generation troubles this phenomenon by
articulating a "neoliberal self(ie) gaze" through which these
feminist activistssee and storify the self on social media as
"good" neoliberal subjects who are appealing, inspiring, and
entertaining. This book offers a fresh perspective on feminist
activism by demonstrating how the problematic neoliberal logic
governing digital spaces like Instagram and Twitter limits the
possibilities of how one might use social media for feminist
activism.
In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout
recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's
changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences:
first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving
Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the
impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime occupation of Japan;
and finally, in the post-colonial period, to the popularity of
American culture. The book shows how the transnational circulation
of people, images, and ideas have shaped and shifted discourses and
hierarchies of race, gender, skin colour, and beauty in Indonesia.
The author employs "affect" theories and feminist cultural studies
as a lens through which to analyse a vast range of materials,
including the Old Javanese epic poem Ramayana, archival materials,
magazine advertisements, commercial products, and numerous
interviews with Indonesian women. The book offers a rich repertoire
of analytical and theoretical tools that allow readers to rethink
issues of race and gender in a global context and understand how
feelings and emotions--Western constructs as well as Indian,
Javanese, and Indonesian notions such as rasa and malu-contribute
to and are constitutive of transnational and gendered processes of
racialisation. Saraswati argues that it is how emotions come to be
attached to certain objects and how they circulate that shape the
"emotionscape" of white beauty in Indonesia. Her ground-breaking
work is a nuanced theoretical exploration of the ways in which
representations of beauty and the emotions they embody travel
geographically and help shape attitudes and beliefs toward race and
gender in a transnational world.
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