{"id":996,"date":"2009-09-24T04:29:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T04:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=996"},"modified":"2013-05-10T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:22:49","slug":"beautiful-beasts-ambivalence-and-distinction-in-the-gender-identity-negotiations-of-multiracialised-women-of-thai-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful beasts: Ambivalence and distinction in the gender identity negotiations of multiracialised women of Thai descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.wsif.2007.07.003\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Beautiful beasts: Ambivalence and distinction in the gender identity negotiations of multiracialised women of Thai descent<\/em><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/01480685\" target=\"_blank\">Women&#8217;s Studies International Forum<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/02775395\/30\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 30, Issue 5<\/a> (September-October 2007)<br \/>\nPages 391-403<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.wsif.2007.07.003\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/j.wsif.2007.07.003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/fes\/wa\/FacultyProfiles\/app\/profile\/1062873\" target=\"_blank\">Jin Haritaworn<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies<br \/>\n<em>York\u00a0University, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This qualitative analysis of interviews with women of Thai and non-Thai parentage throws into question the current celebration of Eur\/asianness and multiraciality.\u00a0 <strong>The study describes multiracialisation as an ambivalent and differential process of categorisation which mobilises essentialist ideas of \u2018stock\u2019 and \u2018breeding\u2019.\u00a0 A far cry from historical notions of \u2018mixed-race degeneracy\u2019, interviewees emerged from this process the \u2018best of both worlds\u2019.<\/strong> However, beside the \u2018good mix\u2019 there ran the spectre of the \u2018bad mix\u2019, and some had more access to celebratory identities than others. Celebratory notions of Eur\/asian femininity were further qualified by the competing discourse of the \u2018Thai prostitute\u2019.\u00a0 The precariousness with which interviewees could access normative ideals of desirability was especially visible in narratives of masculinity, non-white parentage, gender variance and childhood.\u00a0 The article ends by advocating, in the place of a power-evasive celebration, challenges to the multiple overlapping power relations which underlie all acts of evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277539507000593\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful beasts: Ambivalence and distinction in the gender identity negotiations of multiracialised women of Thai descent Women&#8217;s Studies International Forum Volume 30, Issue 5 (September-October 2007) Pages 391-403 DOI: 10.1016\/j.wsif.2007.07.003 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York\u00a0University, Canada This qualitative analysis of interviews with women of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,25],"tags":[133,12295,12296,529,528],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-jin-haritaworn","tag-jinthana-haritaworn","tag-jinthana-k-haritaworn","tag-thailand","tag-womens-studies-international-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}