Identities on the Move

Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities
Herausgeber: Castro-Borrego, Silvia Pilar; Romero-Ruiz, Maria Isabel

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Produktbeschreibung

Identities on the Move questions the postmodernist concept of identity by looking into more progressive views of identity and difference, addressing post-positivist interpretations of key identity markers such as sex, gender, race, and agency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780739191699
• ISBN-10: 0739191691
• Artikelnr.: 41783090

Autorenporträt

Edited by Silvia Pilar Castro-Borrego and Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Contributions by María José Coperías Aguilar; Logie Barrow; Mariam Bazi; Rocío Carrasco Carrasco; Concepción Parrondo Carretero; Laura Gillman; Eduardo Barros Grela; Inmaculada Pineda He

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contents INTRODUCTION: GENDER STRIKE! SEEING GENDER AND SEXUAL
IDENTITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Silvia Pilar Castro Borrego and Maria
Isabel Romero Ruiz, University of Málaga (Spain) Part I: HUMAN TRAFFICKING
AND SEXUAL WOUNDS CHAPTER 1 "Queering Decoloniality: Epistemic Body
Politics in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood" Laura Gillman, Virginia
Tech University (USA) CHAPTER 2 "Women's Migration, Prostitution and Human
Trafficking: Gender and Historical Approaches" Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz,
English Department, University of Málaga (Spain) CHAPTER 3 "Representations
of Transnational and Sexual Violence in Zoë Wicomb's The One that Got Away"
Cynthia Lytle, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) CHAPTER 4 "Child Sexual
Abuse and Traumatic Identity in Down by the River by Edna O'Brien" María
Elena Jaime de Pablos, Universidad de Almeria (Spain) Part II: EPISTEMIC
BODY POLITICS AND GENDER STRUGGLES CHAPTER 5 "Ascribe, Divide - and Rule?
(Some modes of intellectual liminality among ethnic, class, gender and
medical Others)" Logie Barrow, Bremen University (Germany) CHAPTER 6 "Sex,
Pain and Sickness: Performances of Identity through Spaces and Bodies"
Eduardo Barros Grela, Universida de da Coruña (Spain) CHAPTER 7
"Interrogating the Posthuman in Contemporary US Science Fiction Films"
Rocío Carrasco Carrasco, University of Huelva (Spain) CHAPTER 8 "Sexuality
and Gender Relationships in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea" Lucia Garcia
Magaldi, University of Cordoba (Spain) CHAPTER 9 "Lust and sexuality in
Brontë's Jane Eyre and Rhys's Antoinette Mason" María José Coperías
Aguilar, Universitat de València (Spain) Part III: THEORIZING DIFFERENCE:
RECONFIGURING QUEER IDENTITIES CHAPTER 10 "'I am a Black Lesbian, and I am
your sister': Audre Lorde's Theorizing Difference as Weapon for Survival
and Change". Silvia Pilar Castro-Borrego, University of Málaga (Spain)
CHAPTER 11 "The inside and outside of gendered space. Gender migration and
Little Britain from Judith Butler's Gender Trouble to Beatriz Preciado's
Testo Yonqui" David Walton, University of Murcia (Spain) CHAPTER 12
"Shifting Bodies and Boundaries: Representations of Female Soccer Players
and the Shortfall within the South-African Press" Kate Joseph and Antje
Schuhmann, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
CHAPTER 13 "Contemporary African American Women Playwrights and Homophobia:
Before it Hits Home and Blues for an Alabama Sky" Inmaculada Pineda
Hernandez, University of Málaga (Spain) Part IV: MIGRANT SEXUALITIES AND
GENDER POLITICS CHAPTER 14 "An Epic Migration: African American Women,
Representation, Mis/Guided Identities, and Kathryn Stockett's The Help"
Angelita Reyes, Arizona State University (USA) CHAPTER 15 "Identity and
Agency in I been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked out all the Pots Marietta's
Sexual Self" Concepción Parrondo Carretero, University of Málaga (Spain)
CHAPTER 16 "Muslim Women in the Third Space: Negotiating Diaspora,
Sexuality and Identity from a Feminist Postcolonial Perspective" Mariam
Bazi, University of Málaga (Spain) INDEX