Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination: Transcultural Movements
1st Edition
By Anna Ball
May 31, 2023
Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination explores how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship, and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literature, film, and art from a range of ...
Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics: Interpreting Gender in Graphic Narratives
1st Edition
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By Sandra Cox
May 31, 2023
Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics collects several theoretically informed close reading of comics and graphic literature that apply an intersectional feminist lens to the interpretation of several contemporary North American graphic narratives. The essays examine use a range of ...
The Misogynistic Backlash Against Women-Strong Films
1st Edition
By Dana Schowalter, Shannon Stevens, Daniel L. Horvath
May 31, 2023
This book is an exploration of the political struggle for visibility engendered by the growing number of women-centered popular films and a critical analysis of the intensifying misogynistic backlash that have accompanied such advances in the depiction of women on screen. The book draws from a ...
Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution
1st Edition
By Stephanie Lynn Budin
January 09, 2023
Examining freewomen in Mesopotamian society, ancient Greek hetaira, Renaissance Italy courtesans, historical and modern Japanese geisha, and the Hindu devadāsī of India, Stephanie Lynn Budin makes a wide-ranging study of independent women who have historically been dismissed as prostitutes. The ...
Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets
1st Edition
By Eva Pelayo Sañudo
January 09, 2023
Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American women, this book argues that the genre represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows them to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions. Spaces ...
Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face
1st Edition
By Paul Morrison
August 01, 2022
Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywood – Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor – and the gay male fetishization of those faces. Classical Hollywood ...
Dismantling Rape Culture: The Peacebuilding Power of ‘Me Too’
1st Edition
By Tracey Nicholls
May 30, 2022
This book analyses rape culture through the lens of the ‘me too’ era. Drawing feminist theory into conversation with peace studies and improvisation theory, it advocates for peace- building opportunities to transform culture and for the improvisatory resources of ‘culture- jamming’ as a mechanism ...
Representing Abortion
1st Edition
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By Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst
May 30, 2022
Representing Abortion analyses how artists, writers, performers, and activists make abortion visible, audible, and palpable within contexts dominated by anti-abortion imagery centred on the fetus and the erasure of the pregnant person, challenging the polarisation of conversations about abortion. ...
Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists
1st Edition
By Elaine Wood
April 29, 2022
Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists provides a chronological investigation of the innovative writing styles of canonical modernist writers to reveal a shift in gendered representations of sexual subjectivity. Positioned at the nexus of studies on the ...
Kathy Acker: Punk Writer
1st Edition
By Margaret Henderson
April 29, 2022
This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism, and feminism, critiques and exemplifies late twentieth-century capitalism. There is no female or feminist writer like Kathy ...
Gender and Sexual Fluidity in 20th Century Women Writers: Switching Desire and Identity
1st Edition
By Lesley Graydon
April 01, 2022
This book analyses twentieth-century writers who traffic in queer, non-normative, and/or fluid gender and sexual identities and subversive practices, revealing how gender and sexually variant women create, revise, redefine, and play with language, desires, roles, the body, and identity. ...
Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader
1st Edition
By Karyn Sproles
March 31, 2021
Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader is an interdisciplinary exploration into the profound power of narratives to create—and recreate—how we imagine ourselves. It posits that the process of producing a text also produces the reader. Written from the perspective of a ...