Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance: A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere (1st ed. 2022) (Thinking Gender in Transnational Times)

Synopsis

This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History.Grant FFI2017-84555-C2-1-P (research Project “Bodies in Transit: Genders, Mobilities, Interdependencies”) funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe.”

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030955083

Related ISBNs:

9783030955076

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

05/19/22

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Language Arts, Philosophy, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz

Edited by:

Pilar Cuder-Domínguez