Gendered Geographies of Power: Analyzing Gender Across Transnational Spaces
Gendered Geographies of Power: Analyzing Gender Across Transnational Spaces
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权力的性别地理：分析跨国空间中的性别
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2001
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P. Pessar
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作者：
S. Mahler;P. Pessar
这本书反映了许多学者对性别在跨国社会空间的创建、转变和加固过程中的作用的质疑--跨国社会空间是固定在任何一个民族国家的边界内，但延伸到任何一个民族国家的边界之外。迄今为止，性别问题很少成为包括跨国移徙在内的跨国空间和进程研究的主要重点，本书努力培养一种纠正的话语。作者认为，将性别视角引入跨国研究，既有利于跨国过程的研究，也有利于性别的研究。在这本书中，作者确定了一系列跨国空间以及在其中运作的过程和意识形态。作者研究了在跨国背景下性别关系是如何以及为什么被谈判的，以及性别是如何组织它们的。为了做到这一点，作者确定了男人和女人、女孩和男孩在这些空间中的位置和原因。作者在各种操作的地理和分析尺度上探索了性别中介的问题，这些尺度从身体开始，延伸到各大洲。虽然两位作者的主要目标是描述性别在这些跨国背景下是如何运作的，以及为什么他们也试图评估其影响。跨国空间重申的性别关系和意识形态是重新配置的，还是两者兼而有之？什么衡量标准是有意义的，在文化上是合适的，分析应该应用在什么级别上--个人、组织、国家等？最后，这本书的编辑精选了每篇论文的观点，以及在这本书之前的一系列会议和研讨会上由其他学者提出的观点，以努力将它们综合起来，并为研究跨国背景下的性别问题制定一个概念框架。作者在后面的卷导言中概述了这个名为“权力的性别地理”的框架。作者着手完成的任务是艰巨的，作者走过的旅程漫长、坎坷和不完整，但作者希望鼓励其他人响应号召，真正将性别纳入跨民族主义的所有维度的研究中。(作者)
This volume reflects many scholars efforts to interrogate the role of gender in the processes of creation transformation and also fortification of transnational social spaces--spaces that are anchored in but extend beyond the borders of any one nation-state. To date gender has rarely been a principal focus of studies on transnational spaces and processes including transnational migration and this volume strives to nurture a corrective discourse. The authors hold that bringing a gendered optic to transnational studies benefits both the study of transnational processes and the study of gender. The authors in this volume identify a series of transnational spaces and the processes and ideologies operative within them. The authors examine how and why gender relations are negotiated in transnational contexts and also how gender organizes them. To do so the authors identify where men and women girls and boys are located within these spaces and why. The authors explore the question of gendered agency on a variety of operative geographic and analytic scales that begin with the body and extend across continents. While two of the authors main objectives are describing how gender operates in these transnational contexts and why they also seek to evaluate its effects. Are gender relations and ideologies reaffirmed reconfigured or both across transnational spaces? What measure is meaningful and culturally appropriate to use and at what level or levels should the analysis be applied--individuals organizations states and so on? Finally the editors of this volume have culled ideas from each paper as well as those articulated by additional scholars during a series of conferences and workshops leading up to this volume in an effort to synthesize them and develop a conceptual framework for studying gender in transnational contexts. The authors outline this framework entitled "gendered geographies of power" later on in the volumes introduction. The task the authors set out to accomplish has been daunting and the journey the authors have traveled long bumpy and incomplete but the authors hope to hearten others to take up the call and truly incorporate gender into the study of transnationalism in all its dimensions. (authors)