scholarly journals Introduction: Reflections on Nancy Abelmann's Legacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 945-952
Author(s):  
Eleana Kim ◽  
Jesook Song
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Women And Gender Studies ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Teacher Mentor ◽  
The University ◽  
Asian Languages

Nancy Abelmann passed away on January 6, 2016, at the age of fifty-six. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, after completing her dissertation under Nelson Graburn. That same year, she was hired by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she worked for two and a half decades. She was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague to many, and she was a key figure in multiple departments and centers. At the time of her death, she held the Harold E. Preble Professorship in Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women and Gender Studies and was also Associate Vice Chancellor for Research.

scholarly journals On the 32C(ulture) of Eglington

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Savitri Persaud
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Women And Gender Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University

Savitri Persaud is currently a master’s student at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research analyzes the intersections between gender, violence, disability, and modernity in Guyana.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT AND WOMEN’S POLITICAL REPRESENTATION: AN ANALYSIS OF WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE IN FORMAL POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN TURKEY FROM A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Ayşe GÖNÜLLÜ ATAKAN
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Women And Gender Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Developed Countries

Today, the necessity of addressing development not only with its economic dimension but also with its social and environmental dimensions has been accepted by the international community. Alternative Women and Development approaches that emerged in the 1970s also emphasized that the idea of development without women would not be possible, and that the main development is possible with the empowerment of women as important actors of development. It is a dominant view that is agreed in the literature on women and gender studies that one of the most important tools for achieving empowerment, which is conceptualized as “gaining the ability of women to make strategic life choices”, is their participation in decision-making mechanisms. In this context, it is vital for women to participate in formal politics with their own perspective in order to solve their own problems based on their own gendered experiences. In this study, inadequate political representation of women in Turkey, as a candidate to be among the developed countries, is discussed from a gender perspective in terms of reasons, results and solutions. Keywords: Political participation, gender, women and development, empowerment.

Family Context

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-35
Author(s):  
Sumie Okazaki ◽  
Nancy Abelmann
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Family Context ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Korean Families ◽  
The University ◽  
American Families ◽  
Korean American Families

This chapter sets the context for our study, including highlights from a study conducted on the campus of the University of Illinois that served as the impetus for the study of Korean American teens and parents in Chicagoland. The chapter presents the findings—as well as new questions sparked by the findings—of that campus study in light of the prevailing narrative about Korean American (and Asian American) families from previous scholarly works about the nature of intergenerational relationships in immigrant families. The Chicagoland Korean American families featured in our study are also placed in the context of the local, national, and transnational conversations that were ongoing among, and about, Korean American and Korean families and teens at the time of the study.

scholarly journals Face Time, Pandemic Style

October ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 230-241
Author(s):  
Pamela M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Face Time

This article considers the prospects of “facial politics” in the wake of CoVID-19. Recounted through the author's positionality as an Asian American feminist academic, the article describes her encounters in the university and the street, in the United States and China. Addressing gestures of face touching and the trope of the mask relative to its wearer, the essay draws on the work of Mel Y. Chen on the viral conjunction of race, animality, illness, and gender as inflected further by both historical and contemporary treatments of “Chineseness” and visibility. In so doing, the article reframes concepts of perfomativity and the face that are associated with Judith Butler, with the face becoming “the fallen site of discourse” under the conditions of a pandemic.

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