| Office Location: | 210 East Duke Bldg. |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 684 9179 |
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| Web Page: | http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/WomensStudies/faculty/ara.wilson |
Office Hours:
Tuesday 1 -2:00
Education:
- PhD The Graduate School of the City University of New York (CUNY) 1997
- BA Vassar College 1984
- Specialties:
- Globalization
- Sexuality
- Asia
Research Interests: sex and gender in globalization; transnational feminist theory and networks; ethnography and research design; Bangkok, urban Southeast Asia, and transnational zones
Current projects: Sexual Latitudes: The Erotic Politics of Globalization (book), Market Shrines in Bangkok, Medical Tourism
My work contributes to the feminist ethnography of globalization by providing theoretically engaged descriptions of transnational sites and processes. My approach combines attention to political economy, critical studies of culture, and post-colonial critiques of Eurocentrism. I use long term fieldwork in Bangkok, Thailand to explore how sexuality, gender and ethnicity are produced and transformed through the modernity of the non-Western world. I am working to develop ways to analyze gender/sexuality at a global scale, in part by studying such international events as the 1995 Beijing UN Conference on Women or the World Social Forum. This research is part of a current book project, Sexual Latitudes, that considers the implication of globalization as a stage for sexual politics. I am also in the early phases of a project on medical tourism to Thailand.