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Intersections of Gender, Books, and Power: Converging Interests in Narratives by/on Women of East Timor

 

Abstract

This essay discusses some political and theoretical texts on gender in Southeast Asia in general, and in East Timor in particular, with a view to examine values related to traditional female roles, as well as the strategies used to recognize women in political and social fields that are conventionally dominated by males. In the post-colonial space of East Timor, the intersections of past and present, of the global and the local, of war and peace, define the guidelines to explore the negotiation and evolution of gender concepts. Listening actively to the narratives of women from Southeast Asian transitional territories like East Timor, requires translation, equivalence, dialogue and negotiation resources, in order to find points of convergence and divergence with dominant knowledge and thus build and implement concrete and specific strategies, while exercising the hermeneutics of suspicion on the alleged universality of western thought.

Abstract in Portuguese

Este artigo discute alguns textos políticos e teóricos sobre condição de género no Sudeste Asiático em geral, e em Timor Leste, em particular, tentando analisar os valores relacionados com os papéis femininos tradicionais, bem como as estratégias utilizadas para re-conhecer as mulheres em campos políticos e sociais que são con-vencionalmente caracterizados pelo domínio masculino. No espaço pós-colonial de Timor Leste, as intersecções de passado e presente, global e local, guerra e paz, definem as directrizes utilizadas para explorar a negociação e a evolução dos conceitos de género. Escutar activamente as narrativas de mulheres de territórios de transição do Sudeste Asiático, como Timor Leste, exige capacidades de tradução, equivalência, diálogo e negociação, a fim de encontrar pontos de convergência e de divergência com o conhecimento dominante e, assim, construir e implementar estratégias concretas e específicas, ao mesmo tempo que se exerce a hermenêutica da suspeita sobre a alegada universalidade do pensamento ocidental.

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