Title: "Woman and the Margins"

Authors: Pinkaew Laungaramsri and Wang Jieru

Abstract: This paper is a comparative study of vernacular identifications of women at the margins. The paper analyzes interrelation between places and identity politics of the stateless Shan women at the border between Thailand and Burma and the Jinuo women of China’s Xisuanbanna. Both cases are an illustration of how in the course of political repression and economic restructuring, multiple marginalities have been produced and constantly characterized by the interplay of gender, ethnic, and class relation. The paper argues that by transforming the marginal space into meaningful places, women have negotiated with the constricted and suppressive landscapes of marginality and turn them into the source for the renewal and reproduction of subversive identification and networks of transitional identifications.

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