Women, nation, and the ambivalence of subversive identification along the Thai-Burmese border  

Oleh:

Laungaramsri, Pinkaew

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia vol. 21 no. 01 (Apr. 2006), page 68-89.
Topik: subversive identification; gender ambivalence; identities; Shan nationalism
Fulltext: 41308065.pdf (1.56MB)

Isi artikel

This article focuses on the making of Shan nationalism asa a subversive identification against the Burmese regime and its gender ambivalence. By employing a feminist critique of nationalism, it explores the relationship between women and nation within the movement for political independence among the Shan people. The article examines the way in which the imagined Shan nation has become a gender construct and is negotiated and contested by Shan women. hroughj the experiences of the displacement of Shan women exiles,the tension between the master and marginal narratives about th enation has become crucial to how women (re)construct their transnational identities. As women's voices are far from homogeneous and coherent, multiple and divergent experiences characterize with their ambivalent identities.

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