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An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women's Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world.   In 1949, revolutionary activists from Asia hosted a conference in Beijing that gathered together their comrades from around the world. The Asian Women's Conference developed a new political strategy, demanding that women from occupying colonial nations contest imperialism with the same dedication as women whose countries were occupied. Bury the Corpse of Colonialism shows how activists and movements create a revolutionary theory over time and through struggle--in this case, by launching a strategy for anti-imperialist feminist internationalism.   At the heart of this book are two stories. The first describes how the 1949 conference came to be, how it was experienced, and what it produced. The second follows the delegates home. What movements did they represent? Whose voices did they carry? How did their struggles hone their praxis? By examining the lives of more than a dozen AWC participants, Bury the Corpse of Colonialism traces the vital differences at the heart of internationalist solidarity for women's emancipation in a world structured through militarism, capitalism, patriarchy, and the seeming impossibility of justice.

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"In 1949, revolutionary women from Asia who fought colonial occupation and patriarchal oppression gathered in Beijing for the Asian Women's Conference. Together, they drew from their experiences to develop a political strategy for women's internationalism that sought to end imperialism and build socialism. Connected with the Women's International Democratic Federation, women from Latin America, the Caribbean, and North, West, and Southern Africa also joined the conversation before the rise of Afro-Asian solidarity movements gained the name. Their strategy for internationalism demanded that women from occupying colonial nations contest imperialism with the same dedication as women whose countries were occupied"--

Anti-imperialist movements --- Asian Women's Conference --- Ya Zhou fu nü dai biao hui yi --- 亚洲妇女代表会议 --- Ya Zhou fu nü dai biao da hui --- 亞洲婦女代表大会 --- Anti-colonialism --- Antiimperialist movements --- Social movements --- Imperialism --- National liberation movements --- Feminism --- History --- Capitalism --- Colonialism --- Patriarchy --- Radical feminism --- Revolutions --- Socialist feminism --- Feminist struggle --- Book --- Decolonization

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Illuminating how international marriages are negotiated, arranged, and experienced, Cross-Border Marriages is the first book to chart marital migrations involving women and men of diverse national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. The migrations studied here cross geographical borders of provinces, rural-urban borders within nation-states, and international boundaries, including those of China, Japan, South Korea, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, the United States, and Canada. Looking at assumptions about the connection between international marriages and poverty, opportunism, and women's mobility, the book draws attention to ideas about global patterns of inequality that are thought to pressure poor women to emigrate to richer countries, while simultaneously suggesting the limitations of such views.Breaking from studies that regard the international bride as a victim of circumstance and the mechanisms of international marriage as traffic in commodified women, these essays challenge any simple idea of global hypergamy and present a nuanced understanding where a variety of factors, not the least of which is desire, come into play. Indeed, most contemporary marriage-scapes involve women who relocate in order to marry; rarely is it the men. But Nicole Constable and the volume contributors demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, these brides are not necessarily poor, nor do they categorically marry men who are above them on the socioeconomic ladder.Although often women may appear to be moving "up" from a less developed country to a more developed one, they do not necessarily move higher on the chain of economic resources. Complicating these and other assumptions about international marriages, the essays in this volume draw from interviews and rich ethnographic materials to examine women's and men's agency, their motivations for marriage, and the importance of familial pressures and obligations, cultural imaginings, fantasies, and desires, in addition to personal and economic factors.Border-crossing marriages are significant for what they reveal about the intersection of local and global processes in the everyday lives of women and men whose marital opportunities variably yield both rich possibilities and bitter disappointments.

Intercountry marriage --- Asian women --- Asians --- Intercountry marriage. --- Social mobility. --- Mobilité sociale --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Asia --- Women --- Social mobility --- Binational marriage --- International marriage --- Marriages, International --- Marriage --- Foreign spouses --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- Anthropology. --- Folklore. --- Linguistics. --- Mariage international --- Femmes --- Mobilité sociale --- Emigration et immigration --- Transferts de population --- Asie --- Émigration et immigration --- Population

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By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships-their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating-this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.

Intercountry marriage --- Marriage brokerage --- Mail order brides --- Asians --- International correspondence --- Correspondence, International --- Friendship letters --- Letter writing --- Pen pals --- Picture brides --- Brides --- Foreign spouses --- Brokage, Marriage --- Brokerage, Marriage --- Brokers, Marriage --- Arranged marriage --- Mate selection --- Binational marriage --- International marriage --- Marriages, International --- Marriage --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Asia --- America --- american men. --- asian women. --- chinese women. --- cultural perspective. --- eastern european women. --- email order spouses. --- ethnographers. --- fieldwork. --- filipinas. --- globalization. --- internet ethnography. --- internet. --- latin american women. --- life partners. --- long distance dating. --- love and romance. --- mail order marriages. --- matching up. --- matchmaking. --- migration. --- misconceptions. --- nonfiction. --- online courtship. --- pen pals. --- stereotypes. --- transnational marriage. --- virtual ethnography. --- western men.

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This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.

Feminism --- Women and communism --- Sex role --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Communism and women --- Communism --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Employment --- Social conditions --- S11/0710 --- S11/0730 --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Women: since 1949 --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- asian women. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese literature. --- chinese women. --- communism. --- communist. --- cultural revolution. --- domesticity. --- employment. --- factory workers. --- factory. --- family. --- female infanticide. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gendered labor. --- historiography. --- history. --- household labor. --- labor. --- marriage. --- nonfiction. --- peoples republic. --- republic. --- rural women. --- sex roles. --- sexuality. --- urban women. --- women and labor. --- women in the workforce. --- womens history. --- womens studies.