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Research on Transnational Comparative Women’s Studies: Focused on Asian Women’s Studies Gayoung Min(Hanyang University) Asian women’s studies have shown divergent historical contexts beyond western perspective as an intellectually postcolonial work. But these work have lead to reproduce the nationally and regionally bounded. This research aims to examine the way for Asian women’s studies which have aimed to criticize western-centered perspective and reveal asian context to go beyond Asian boundedness. Specially this research aims to reproblematize the boundary of Asia by examining ‘division of civilization during the period of imperialism and division of human rights’ during the period of developmentalism after the world war II. Historically women’s human rights have been used to represent non western societies in a way of inferior to Western society and through this process hierarchy of areas have been justified. Women’s human rights in the age of imperialism and developmentalism had played a crucial role to represent the colony and no western society in a contrasting way of civilization vs tradition and savior for human rights vs victim of inferior human rights. Sati represented as a tradition against India women had been constituted as an universal tradition by collaboration between India elites and imperialist with erasing diverse interpretations and practices around sati in India. By comparing sati with a witch-hunt in Europe, while sati was represented as an ongoing practice to make India women’s life dangerous, witch-hunt was represented as an ended practice. To represent non western society as the homogeneous and the ahistorical serve to represent women as a victim of tradition by erasing cultural differences and complexities. The pattern around civilizaion between imperial and colony has been repeated around human rights between the 1st world and the third world. the concept of ‘division in human rights’ has emerged based on the dichotomy of universal savior vs universal victim. It is important to notice how ‘non western human rights’ has been invented. Narayan shows that how a dowry-murder has been represented as a India tradition, while it is a form of domestic violences that occurs in almost every country. She asked why dowry-murder has been represented as a local problems and murders in domestic violence have been invisible while the ratio of murder in domestic violence in the USA is similar to that in India. While a dowry-murder has been considered as a problem , general domestic violences have not issued. In a contrast while murders in domestic violence have not been visible, general domestic violences have been considered as an important social issue. The process to construct issues about women’s human rights as a local tradition shows that the process to construct non western society as an other of western society is situated on cross internal and national connection. The fact raises a need for a transnational comparative research by showing multiple connectivities among nations. This method will open a space of possibility to problematize a category of Asia and go beyond a category of Asia.

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I. 머리말
 II. 서구의 보편주의에 대한 비판적 작업으로서의 아시아 여성학
 III. 분석틀 : 문화적 차이에 대한 탈식민주의적 접근
 IV. 제국과 식민지 간의 다층적 문명분업과 '반여성적 식민지 전통'의 구성
 V. 서구와 비서구 간의 다층적 인권분업과 '반여성적 비서구 인권문제'의 구성
 VI. 결론
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• 민가영 [ Gayoung Min | 한양대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  역사와 문화 [HISTORY & CULTURE]

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  폐간

• pISSN

  2287-2868

• 수록기간

  2000~2015

• 십진분류

  KDC 911 DDC 951