ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Transnationalism, Masculinity
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3-5 pg choose one movie from the list and do a critical film review relating to course, in addition with 3 academic references. Highlight the themes from course to make it critical review. Don"t just summarize, pick out pieces and why its significant. Analyze the message of the film, themes and how it relates to course. Themes : transnationalism main character is chinese but isn"t from that area, she"s from us, global economy how the family makes the money. Variety of processes working beyond the boundaries of the nation state (general) How nation-state becomes actor within transnational world? interact with transnational organization. Not diaspora, not commodity change although both can be involved. Depends upon and reproduces sex and gender relations. Women are believed to be predisposed to domestic work. Fillipino domestic workers, the market capitalized on the notion that women were meant to be domestic workers. Feminization of labour can both reproduce and destabilize existing labour and gender relations.
