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Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the Study of Sexualities Typical Courses Taught:
- Sxl 115s, Study of sexualities
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- Womenst 161, Money, sex, power
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- Womenst 240s, Critical genealogies: transnational feminism
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- Office Hours:
- Fall 2008 - email or call for an appointment
Education:
- PhD The Graduate School of the City University of New York (CUNY) 1997
- BA Vassar College 1984
- Specialties:
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Globalization
Sexuality
Asia
- Research Interests: gender + sexuality in global modernity; transnational feminism (NGOs + anti-globalization); urban Southeast Asia and transnational zones; cultural logics of global capital
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.
- Duties:
- Director of Sexuality Studies
- Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications (More Publications)
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- The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in The Global City. University of California,
2004. [html]
- A. Wilson. "Queering Asia." Intersections :14 (). 2006
<http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue14/wilson.html> - "Feminism in the Space of the World Social Forum." Journal of International Women’s Studies special issue on the World Social Forum8:3 (April,
2007). April, 2007
<http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/jiws/April07/index.htm>
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