| 摘要: | 研究期間：10108~10207;This two-year project begins with the post-nineties emergence of an “international feminism” (Barlow), “cultural feminism,” (Ghodsee) and “cold war feminism” (Yoneyama) as subjects of an autocritique on the part of US feminist historians and literary and cultural critics, as well as its counterparts in transnational NGO feminisms in East Asia (Ho). The rise of “international feminism” as discourse and phenomenon in late eighties US, is a moment of consolidation of feminism as institutional cultural force in the academe but also in law, amidst critiques from “women of color,” postcolonial, and queer critics. The focus of the first year’s research will read and analyze this US based auto-critical discourse on international feminism, and consider its disarticulation with a concurrent US foreign policy rhetoric advocating military interventions abroad in the name of freedom. In the first year I will focus on researching the relations and correspondences between a nineties US-emanated international feminist discourse with, on the one hand, its preceding “small wars” in the eighties US (including the “sex wars”), and on the other, its conjunction with, in the nineties, a new discourse and vision of a “liberal empire” or an “American empire” in the making. In the second year, I will read and contrast select works from Carolyn Steedman, Tani Barlow, Hu Taili, and Josephine Ho among others, in order to cull alternative methods that overcome or otherwise resolve the knowledge impasse in a global media analytic of patriarchy’s relation to sexuality enabled by international feminism’s methodological US nationalism. Steedman and Barlow provide differently vectored historiographic models of reading, while Hu and Ho traverse social sciences, humanities, ethnography, and the literary to bridge a gap between im/possible futures and il/legible pasts. |
