Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance
A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere
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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.
Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz is Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga, Spain. She specialises in the social and cultural history of deviant women and children in Victorian England, as well as in contemporary gender and sexual identity issues in Neo-Victorian fiction.
Pilar Cuder-Domínguez is Professor of English at the University of Huelva, Spain, where she teaches the literature and cultures of Great Britain and Anglophone Canada. Her research deals with the intersections of gender, genre, race, and nation.
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.”
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.”
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Analyzes a wide variety of literature and media from across different continents Fills a gap in the burgeoning field of Vulnerability Studies through its analysis of diverse cultural productions Draws insights from multiple fields across Humanities and Social Sciences
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“The current volume is an important contribution, making up for the gap in the existing scholarship adopting the concept of vulnerability in the field of humanities. Its focus on the cultural representation of gender-based vulnerability and the possibilities of resistance in a transnational context makes the volume a special collection of eleven case studies. Each chapter adopts Judith Butler’s concept of vulnerability as a human condition for studying various English language-based cultures from a Mediterranean perspective. The focus on the gendered materializations of precarity makes the volume a fascinating read, tracing down the movement of the concept through a rich collection of case studies. It is an indispensable read for a diverse group of scholars for its multidisciplinary approach, drawing from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism within a feminist framework of vulnerability.”
— Erzsébet Barát, associate professor in gender studies and linguistics, University of Szeged and Central European University
“A heart-felt welcome to this most needed approach to the study of precarity and vulnerability, innovatively analyzed from transnational feminist perspectives. The volume examines an impressive wide range of cultural representations of gender-based vulnerability in diverse settings of the Anglophone world. Emanating from the in-depth scrutiny of representations of precarity, vulnerability and the responses to them, such as resilience and resistance, within the international project “Bodies in Transit 2”, this volume showcases the intense current debates around agency, relationality, trans* identities and post-identities through an interesting and pertinent selection of cultural materials from Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, the UK and the U.S.A. Undoubtedly, a most useful collection for those working in Gender Studies, Vulnerability Studies, and Cultural Studies.”
— Belén Martín-Lucas, Professor in English, U. de Vigo (Spain), co-editor of Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan 2017)
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