Transnational Perspectives on Gender and Sexualities

1. TRANSNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVES
Grewal & Kaplan, McLelland
Oct 9, 2012

2. TODAY’S GOALS:
• Grewal and Kaplan--identity, subjectivity, representation
• Grewal and Kaplan: problems with transnational/global
• McLelland-Yaoi and Nuhalf--different view of identity
• Nuhalf
and Yaoi as global phenomena counter-globalization
(Appadurai)
• ConcludingGlobalization--what is consistent? What is counter?
What is inconsistent? What’s at stake in knowing this?

3. IDENTITY
• exercise

4. IDENTITY VS. SUBJECTIVITY
• identity categories by which we construct and express our senses of self.
• In contrast, subjectivity, as the term is used by sociologists or cultural critics, signifies
the ways that we as individuals must situate ourselves in relations to power—how we
are “subjected” to/by the forces of economics, law, societal convention, the
circumstances of history, and the physical world generally. Subjectivity is part of the
process that “naturalizes” these relations and our place within them.

5. GREWAL AND KAPLAN
• 66 ID politics, representation, and subject formation
• why does this matter?

6. TRANSNATIONAL
•5 uses
•4 spheres/limits/binaries that are produced by current uses
globalization and transnational

7. YAOI
•(PROTECTED)
• 18 or else

8. MCLELLAND YAOI
• Code to keep foreigners out
ALSO always takes into account who is being spoken to.
Different sense of identity--not written or produced by gay men!
• Respite from heteronormative regimes, not an alternative 53

9. TRADITIONAL YAOI

10. Yaoi no longer
just boy-love

11. NEWHALF

12. MCCLELLAND-NUHALF
• nuhalfas occupational category not sexual identity or
orientation 60
• advertise, no fixed audience (women, too) 61
• language includes social positioning (Grewal and Kaplan)
• play/commercial at work

13. TODAY’S GOALS:
• Grewal and Kaplan--identity, subjectivity, representation
• Grewal and Kaplan: problems with transnational/global
• McLelland-Yaoi and Nuhalf--different view of identity
• Nuhalf
and Yaoi as global phenomena counter-globalization
(Appadurai)
• ConcludingGlobalization--what is consistent? What is counter?
What is inconsistent? What’s at stake in knowing this?