Vrushali Patil
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vrushali Patil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vrushali |
| FAMILY NAME | Patil |
| SIGNATURE | PATIL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Colorblind Feminisms: Ansari-Grace and the Limits of #MeToo Counterpublics
This article focuses on the uproar over the sexual encounter between actor/comedian Aziz Ansari and a woman known publicly as Grace as a lens onto the colorblind counterpublic feminisms driving the #MeToo movement. Tracing the ways that this sexual encounter between a Brown Muslim man and an anonymous, presumably white, woman were spotlighted, we show that race is superficially absent even as it informs the range of feminist counterpublics that e…
The Heterosexual Matrix as Imperial Effect
While Judith Butler's concept of the heterosexual matrix is dominant in gender and sexuality studies, it is a curiously aspatial and atemporal concept. This paper seeks to re-embed it within space and time by situating its emergence within colonial and imperial histories. Based on this discussion, it ends with three lessons for contemporary work on gender and sexuality and a broader theorization of sex-gender-sexuality regimes beyond the heterose…
The transnational assemblage of Indian rape culture
We analyse the affective-cultural assemblage of "Indian rape culture" across historical time and social space. We examine news coverage of a highly visible 2012 rape in Delhi in two newspapers, New York Times and Times of India, and the longevity of these articulations through an analysis of online discourses three years later. We further trace colonial-era materializations of Indian rape culture which emerged in the context of the "Indian Mutiny…
The white woman's burden' - the racialized, gendered politics of volunteer tourism
Talking about race in volunteer tourism is like breaking a taboo. By critically exploring the racialized and gendered politics of volunteer tourism from the perspective of the 'white savior complex,' we seek to open new avenues of discussion to break this silence. We employ a postcolonial feminist theoretical framework to analyze volunteer tourism. The meanings, practices, and policies of volunteer tourism development are informed by the racializ…
Sexual Violence, Race and Media (In)Visibility: Intersectional Complexities in a Transnational Frame
Intersectional scholarship argues that women of color have distinct experiences of rape compared to white women and highlights their relative invisibility as victims compared to white women victims in news media. While the bulk of intersectional work has examined such issues within one nation and particularly within the US, in an era of increasingly transnationalized media content, we explore such intersectionalities in a transnational frame. Tha…
Scaling Intersectionality: Advancing Feminist Analysis of Transnational Families
"On Coloniality, Racialized Forgetting and the "Group Effect: Interrogating Ethnic Studies' Meta-Narrative of Race
Against the backdrop of collaborative antiracist struggle, this paper considers knowledge about race constructed by contemporary ethnic studies. Examining narratives of self, history and purpose produced by ethnic studies, it argues that these narratives highlight processes of racialization at the level of received ethnic groups while eliding cross-group processes. It argues that the hyper-visibility of racialization at the level of distinct grou…
From Patriarchy to Intersectionality: A Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far We've Really Come
This article examines the general shift in feminist scholarship from the use of the concept of patriarchy to the concept of intersectionality from a transnational feminist perspective. It first reviews some central critiques of patriarchy (the problems of unidimensionality, universality, and tautology) and then examines intersectional scholarship that emerged in response. Reviewing research applications of intersectionality since the year 2000, i…
Transnational Feminism in Sociology: Articulations, Agendas, Debates
What is the current terrain of transnational feminism in sociology? This essay begins by introducing the key interdisciplinary writings that helped initiate a specifically transnational feminist approach in women’s and gender studies. It then delineates three primary ways in which these writings have been adapted and/or expanded with/in sociology, as well as some points of tension and debate among these varying approaches. It argues that although…
Narrating political history about contested space
Reproducing-Resisting Race and Gender Difference: Examining India's Online Tourism Campaign from a Transnational Feminist Perspective
In this article, I examine the Indian state’s contemporary online tourism promotion campaign from a transnational feminist perspective by discursively considering twenty-four tourism promotion videos posted by the state on YouTube. While transnational feminists seek to examine how racialized, gendered selves are produced within processes of globalization, this work has largely neglected international tourism, which I argue is a key contemporary s…
Contending masculinities: The gendered (re) negotiation of colonial hierarchy in the United Nations debates on decolonization
Gender Oppression
Gender oppression is defined as oppression associated with the gender norms, relations, and stratification of a given society. Modern norms of gender in western societies consist of the dichotomous, mutually exclusive categories of masculinity and femininity. Developing in tandem with industrial capitalism and the nation‐state, they had particular consequences for women and men. While masculinity was to consist of rationality, autonomy, activity,…
Measuring National Income: A Critical Assessment
Recent studies of trends in world income inequalities show that results differ significantly depending on whether income is measured through Purchasing Power Parities (PPP)- or exchange rate (FX)-based data. Korzeniewicz and Moran (1997), for example, relying on FX-based national income data, argue that world income inequalities rose during the 1980s. Firebaugh (1999), on the other hand, using PPP-based national income data, counters that world i…
Fertility Desires and Perceptions of Power in Reproductive Conflict in Ghana
Ghanaian fertility decline may not be associated with women's having greater control over reproduction. Focus groups of young Ghanaian men and women indicate that attitudes supporting men's dominance in fertility decisions characterize even the highly educated. Young women with high fertility desires anticipate being able to stop childbearing when they want to, but they do not expect to be able to continue if their husband wants to stop. Those wi…
The white woman's burden' - the racialized, gendered politics of volunteer tourism
Talking about race in volunteer tourism is like breaking a taboo. By critically exploring the racialized and gendered politics of volunteer tourism from the perspective of the 'white savior complex,' we seek to open new avenues of discussion to break this silence. We employ a postcolonial feminist theoretical framework to analyze volunteer tourism. The meanings, practices, and policies of volunteer tourism development are informed by the racializ…
Scaling Intersectionality: Advancing Feminist Analysis of Transnational Families
Fertility Desires and Perceptions of Power in Reproductive Conflict in Ghana
Ghanaian fertility decline may not be associated with women's having greater control over reproduction. Focus groups of young Ghanaian men and women indicate that attitudes supporting men's dominance in fertility decisions characterize even the highly educated. Young women with high fertility desires anticipate being able to stop childbearing when they want to, but they do not expect to be able to continue if their husband wants to stop. Those wi…
The transnational assemblage of Indian rape culture
We analyse the affective-cultural assemblage of "Indian rape culture" across historical time and social space. We examine news coverage of a highly visible 2012 rape in Delhi in two newspapers, New York Times and Times of India, and the longevity of these articulations through an analysis of online discourses three years later. We further trace colonial-era materializations of Indian rape culture which emerged in the context of the "Indian Mutiny…
Transnational Feminism in Sociology: Articulations, Agendas, Debates
What is the current terrain of transnational feminism in sociology? This essay begins by introducing the key interdisciplinary writings that helped initiate a specifically transnational feminist approach in women’s and gender studies. It then delineates three primary ways in which these writings have been adapted and/or expanded with/in sociology, as well as some points of tension and debate among these varying approaches. It argues that although…
Narrating political history about contested space
The Heterosexual Matrix as Imperial Effect
While Judith Butler's concept of the heterosexual matrix is dominant in gender and sexuality studies, it is a curiously aspatial and atemporal concept. This paper seeks to re-embed it within space and time by situating its emergence within colonial and imperial histories. Based on this discussion, it ends with three lessons for contemporary work on gender and sexuality and a broader theorization of sex-gender-sexuality regimes beyond the heterose…
Contending masculinities: The gendered (re) negotiation of colonial hierarchy in the United Nations debates on decolonization
Sexual Violence, Race and Media (In)Visibility: Intersectional Complexities in a Transnational Frame
Intersectional scholarship argues that women of color have distinct experiences of rape compared to white women and highlights their relative invisibility as victims compared to white women victims in news media. While the bulk of intersectional work has examined such issues within one nation and particularly within the US, in an era of increasingly transnationalized media content, we explore such intersectionalities in a transnational frame. Tha…
"On Coloniality, Racialized Forgetting and the "Group Effect: Interrogating Ethnic Studies' Meta-Narrative of Race
Against the backdrop of collaborative antiracist struggle, this paper considers knowledge about race constructed by contemporary ethnic studies. Examining narratives of self, history and purpose produced by ethnic studies, it argues that these narratives highlight processes of racialization at the level of received ethnic groups while eliding cross-group processes. It argues that the hyper-visibility of racialization at the level of distinct grou…
Measuring National Income: A Critical Assessment
Recent studies of trends in world income inequalities show that results differ significantly depending on whether income is measured through Purchasing Power Parities (PPP)- or exchange rate (FX)-based data. Korzeniewicz and Moran (1997), for example, relying on FX-based national income data, argue that world income inequalities rose during the 1980s. Firebaugh (1999), on the other hand, using PPP-based national income data, counters that world i…
Colorblind Feminisms: Ansari-Grace and the Limits of #MeToo Counterpublics
This article focuses on the uproar over the sexual encounter between actor/comedian Aziz Ansari and a woman known publicly as Grace as a lens onto the colorblind counterpublic feminisms driving the #MeToo movement. Tracing the ways that this sexual encounter between a Brown Muslim man and an anonymous, presumably white, woman were spotlighted, we show that race is superficially absent even as it informs the range of feminist counterpublics that e…
Reproducing-Resisting Race and Gender Difference: Examining India's Online Tourism Campaign from a Transnational Feminist Perspective
In this article, I examine the Indian state’s contemporary online tourism promotion campaign from a transnational feminist perspective by discursively considering twenty-four tourism promotion videos posted by the state on YouTube. While transnational feminists seek to examine how racialized, gendered selves are produced within processes of globalization, this work has largely neglected international tourism, which I argue is a key contemporary s…
Gender Oppression
Gender oppression is defined as oppression associated with the gender norms, relations, and stratification of a given society. Modern norms of gender in western societies consist of the dichotomous, mutually exclusive categories of masculinity and femininity. Developing in tandem with industrial capitalism and the nation‐state, they had particular consequences for women and men. While masculinity was to consist of rationality, autonomy, activity,…
Fertility Desires and Perceptions of Power in Reproductive Conflict in Ghana
Ghanaian fertility decline may not be associated with women's having greater control over reproduction. Focus groups of young Ghanaian men and women indicate that attitudes supporting men's dominance in fertility decisions characterize even the highly educated. Young women with high fertility desires anticipate being able to stop childbearing when they want to, but they do not expect to be able to continue if their husband wants to stop. Those wi…
Measuring National Income: A Critical Assessment
Recent studies of trends in world income inequalities show that results differ significantly depending on whether income is measured through Purchasing Power Parities (PPP)- or exchange rate (FX)-based data. Korzeniewicz and Moran (1997), for example, relying on FX-based national income data, argue that world income inequalities rose during the 1980s. Firebaugh (1999), on the other hand, using PPP-based national income data, counters that world i…
Gender Oppression
Gender oppression is defined as oppression associated with the gender norms, relations, and stratification of a given society. Modern norms of gender in western societies consist of the dichotomous, mutually exclusive categories of masculinity and femininity. Developing in tandem with industrial capitalism and the nation‐state, they had particular consequences for women and men. While masculinity was to consist of rationality, autonomy, activity,…
Contending masculinities: The gendered (re) negotiation of colonial hierarchy in the United Nations debates on decolonization
Transnational Feminism in Sociology: Articulations, Agendas, Debates
What is the current terrain of transnational feminism in sociology? This essay begins by introducing the key interdisciplinary writings that helped initiate a specifically transnational feminist approach in women’s and gender studies. It then delineates three primary ways in which these writings have been adapted and/or expanded with/in sociology, as well as some points of tension and debate among these varying approaches. It argues that although…
Narrating political history about contested space
Reproducing-Resisting Race and Gender Difference: Examining India's Online Tourism Campaign from a Transnational Feminist Perspective
In this article, I examine the Indian state’s contemporary online tourism promotion campaign from a transnational feminist perspective by discursively considering twenty-four tourism promotion videos posted by the state on YouTube. While transnational feminists seek to examine how racialized, gendered selves are produced within processes of globalization, this work has largely neglected international tourism, which I argue is a key contemporary s…
From Patriarchy to Intersectionality: A Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far We've Really Come
This article examines the general shift in feminist scholarship from the use of the concept of patriarchy to the concept of intersectionality from a transnational feminist perspective. It first reviews some central critiques of patriarchy (the problems of unidimensionality, universality, and tautology) and then examines intersectional scholarship that emerged in response. Reviewing research applications of intersectionality since the year 2000, i…
"On Coloniality, Racialized Forgetting and the "Group Effect: Interrogating Ethnic Studies' Meta-Narrative of Race
Against the backdrop of collaborative antiracist struggle, this paper considers knowledge about race constructed by contemporary ethnic studies. Examining narratives of self, history and purpose produced by ethnic studies, it argues that these narratives highlight processes of racialization at the level of received ethnic groups while eliding cross-group processes. It argues that the hyper-visibility of racialization at the level of distinct grou…
Sexual Violence, Race and Media (In)Visibility: Intersectional Complexities in a Transnational Frame
Intersectional scholarship argues that women of color have distinct experiences of rape compared to white women and highlights their relative invisibility as victims compared to white women victims in news media. While the bulk of intersectional work has examined such issues within one nation and particularly within the US, in an era of increasingly transnationalized media content, we explore such intersectionalities in a transnational frame. Tha…
Scaling Intersectionality: Advancing Feminist Analysis of Transnational Families
The white woman's burden' - the racialized, gendered politics of volunteer tourism
Talking about race in volunteer tourism is like breaking a taboo. By critically exploring the racialized and gendered politics of volunteer tourism from the perspective of the 'white savior complex,' we seek to open new avenues of discussion to break this silence. We employ a postcolonial feminist theoretical framework to analyze volunteer tourism. The meanings, practices, and policies of volunteer tourism development are informed by the racializ…
The Heterosexual Matrix as Imperial Effect
While Judith Butler's concept of the heterosexual matrix is dominant in gender and sexuality studies, it is a curiously aspatial and atemporal concept. This paper seeks to re-embed it within space and time by situating its emergence within colonial and imperial histories. Based on this discussion, it ends with three lessons for contemporary work on gender and sexuality and a broader theorization of sex-gender-sexuality regimes beyond the heterose…
The transnational assemblage of Indian rape culture
We analyse the affective-cultural assemblage of "Indian rape culture" across historical time and social space. We examine news coverage of a highly visible 2012 rape in Delhi in two newspapers, New York Times and Times of India, and the longevity of these articulations through an analysis of online discourses three years later. We further trace colonial-era materializations of Indian rape culture which emerged in the context of the "Indian Mutiny…
Colorblind Feminisms: Ansari-Grace and the Limits of #MeToo Counterpublics
This article focuses on the uproar over the sexual encounter between actor/comedian Aziz Ansari and a woman known publicly as Grace as a lens onto the colorblind counterpublic feminisms driving the #MeToo movement. Tracing the ways that this sexual encounter between a Brown Muslim man and an anonymous, presumably white, woman were spotlighted, we show that race is superficially absent even as it informs the range of feminist counterpublics that e…
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (4 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (4 works)