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Constructing "Asian women": A critic...

Kim, Nami.

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Constructing "Asian women": A critical examination of cultural-theological rhetoric.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Constructing "Asian women": A critical examination of cultural-theological rhetoric./
Author:	Kim, Nami.
Description:	247 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-01A.
Subject:	Religion, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3160341
ISBN:	9780496935598

Constructing "Asian women": A critical examination of cultural-theological rhetoric.
Kim, Nami.

Constructing "Asian women": A critical examination of cultural-theological rhetoric. - 247 p.

Adviser: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza.

Thesis (Th.D.)--Harvard University, 2004.

This dissertation is a critical examination of the homogeneous category of "Asian women" in cultural and theological discourses, which has rendered wo/men in/from Asias as a monolithic group irrespective of varied socio-cultural, religious, political and economic differences among them. In this dissertation, I argue that the use of the category of "Asian women" needs to be critically reassessed and reconsidered if Christian feminist theology wants to continue to be a relevant and liberating force in the lives of wo/men in/from Asias. The use of the category of "Asian women" that is based on two identities--- i.e. being woman and being Asian---is problematic for two reasons. First, when a geopolitical and/or cultural designation called "Asian" is taken as a mark of difference, differences among "Asian women" are erased and the essentialist portrait of "Asian women" is produced. Second, the use of the category of "Asian women" subscribes to the additive notion of identity, according to which sex/gender is prioritized and oppression is understood as cumulative rather than intersecting.

ISBN: 9780496935598Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017453
Religion, General.

Constructing "Asian women": A critical examination of cultural-theological rhetoric.
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520 $a The investigation of various scripts on Japan's military sexual slavery demonstrates that "hierarchically structured differences" exist among "Asian women" along the axes of race/ethnicity, class, nationality, and age among others. I also argue that the production of the essentialist portrayal of "Asian women" could be traced back to Christian overseas missionary discourse from the late nineteenth century through early twentieth century, and that the traces of missionary discourse are found in contemporary feminist scholarship, which constructs "Asian women" as the victims of their own patriarchal religion(s)/cultures/traditions. The study of a genealogy of the unifying category of "Asian" also shows that its current usages in Asian theology needs to be reconsidered in the face of increasing forces of globalization as they compel us to rethink national borders, citizenship, identity, and community. Finally, I argue that Asian feminist theology needs to define itself as a critical global feminist theology rather than as a theology that speaks only for and by "Asian women" from the "Asian women's perspective" as wo/men's lives across the national borders are closely interrelated through transnational capitalism and the military hegemony that underpins it.
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