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Title:Foreign Brides In Meinung
Director Hsiao-Fang LIN
Year
2001 Genre Documentary
Duration 60 min Nation Taiwan
Origin spec. Betacam、DV Subtitled in Traditional Chinese
Color Color
Award Records
Issue about
Keyword
Association
Year 2002 Theme 2007 south in taiwan、9th 2002 WMWFF
DVD
Activity classification Difting Destiny - Sweet Foreign Land v.s. Strange Hometown
Preserve spec. VHS

Film Status

Use in the association only
Copyright Infor. Hsiao-Fang LIN
E-mail : [email protected]
Introduction
This documentary is a story about a group of special newcomers from Southeast Asia who married to the village of Taiwan. In Taiwan, we can them “Foreign Brides, “which is similar as the phenomenon of Mail-order brides in United States. As recent feminist discourse trying to broaden it’s perspective to the global political economic scale. The documentary probably offer a lively example that the globalization is a set of complex, process in which the roles of gender, inequalities. The economic growth of Taiwan doesn't really challenge the exiting patriarchal system, it transformed into different way, impose on the inequality on Southeast women, through objectifying as commodity in the marriage market.
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