Queering the global Filipina body : contested nationalisms in the Filipina/o diaspora

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Velasco, Gina K., 1977- author

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Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic labourers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing ...

Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic labourers, 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.

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