Born and made: sisters, brothers, and the "Deceased Wife's Sister Bill" [0.03%]
生死契阔:姐妹、兄弟与《死者妻子的姐妹法案》
E R Gruner
E R Gruner
Necropolitics, narcopolitics, and femicide: gendered violence on the Mexico-U.S. border [0.03%]
necropolitics、narcopolitics与女性被杀:墨西哥-美国边境的性别暴力
Melissa W Wright
Melissa W Wright
In 1993, a group of women shocked Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, with the news that dozens of girls and women had been murdered and dumped, like garbage, around the city during the year. As the numbers of murders grew over the years, and as the...
The environmental account of obesity: a case for feminist skepticism [0.03%]
环境视角下的肥胖问题:女性主义怀疑论的案例分析
Anna Kirkland
Anna Kirkland
There is an emerging consensus among public health advocates that combating obesity is best done by restructuring the environment rather than by stigmatizing individuals. Although feminist scholars have not been major participants in debate...
"We don't forget the old rice pot when we get the new one": discourses on ideals and practices of women in contemporary Cambodia [0.03%]
“新婚后不忘旧饭锅”——当代柬埔寨妇女的理想与实践话语分析
Katherine Brickell
Katherine Brickell
Drawing on microlevel research with men and women of differing ages living in rural and urban Siem Reap (home to the global heritage and tourist site of Angkor), this article focuses on the key discourses and practices that men and women dr...
Yiu Fai Chow
Yiu Fai Chow
Every year, Miss China Europe, a transnational beauty pageant organized for the Chinese diaspora, is held in the Netherlands. The hypervisuality of Chinese diasporic women at the event stands in painful contrast to their everyday invisibili...
Minh-Ha T Pham
Minh-Ha T Pham
As part of a feminist commitment to collaboration, this article appears as a companion essay to Mimi Thi Nguyen's "The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialisms and Global Feminisms" and offers a point of departure for thinking about fa...
The biopower of beauty: humanitarian imperialisms and global feminisms in an age of terror [0.03%]
美丽的精神力量:恐怖主义时代的仁政帝国主义与全球女性主义
Mimi Thi Nguyen
Mimi Thi Nguyen
As part of a feminist commitment to collaboration, this article, which appears as a companion essay to Minh-Ha T. Pham's "The Right to Fashion in the Age of Terror," offers a point of departure for thinking about fashion and beauty as proce...
Nennu and Shunu: gender, body politics, and the beauty economy in China [0.03%]
嫩奴与 순우:中国性别、身体政治与美丽经济之透视
Jie Yang
Jie Yang
This essay analyzes recent discourse on two emerging representations of women in China, "tender" women (nennu) and "ripe" women (shunu), in order to examine the relationships among gender, body politics, and consumerism. The discourse of ne...
Complicating common ideas about medical tourism: gender, class, and globality in Yemenis' international medical travel [0.03%]
关于医疗旅游的普遍观念过于简单:也门人国际医疗旅行中的性别、阶级和全球性因素
Beth Kangas
Beth Kangas
Three cases of international medical travelers from Yemen, a capital‐poor country in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula, help to counter misconceptions within discussions of medical tourism. These misconceptions include the sugg...