3rd Edition
Doing Gender in Media, Art, and Culture A Contemporary Guide to Gender Studies
Introduction
Rosemarie Buikema, Liedeke Plate, and Kathrin Thiele
Part I – Concepts for Doing Gender
1. What is Left Unseen in the Story of Sojourner Truth: Intersectional Feminisms and Feminist Historiography
Katrine Smiet
2. The Politics of Knowledge: Virginia Woolf and the Epistemological Practice of Standpoint and Situatedness
Kathrin Thiele
3. Borders and Bridges: Gloria Anzaldúa, Intersectionality, and Interdisciplinarity
Gloria Wekker
4. The Adventures of Sarah Baartmann and the Ethics of Representation
Rosemarie Buikema
5. Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale: Intersectional Feminist History in the Making
Geertje Mak and Berteke Waaldijk
Part II – Intersectional Approaches to Doing Gender
6. ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’: Feminism, Postcoloniality, and Social Movements
Sandra Ponzanesi
7. (Post)secular Feminisms: Malala, Religion, and Gender Equality
Eva Midden
8. Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM): A Political Genealogy of Queer Marxism and Queer of Colour Critique
Gianmaria Colpani
9. Maintaining Life Under Capitalism: From Wages for Housework to Social Reproduction Theory
Jamila M. H. Mascat
10. ‘It’s All Witches’: Feminist Politics of Dissent in the Post-Yugoslav Space
Milica Trakilović
11. Lili Elbe’s Transmedial Presence and the Politics of Transgender Studies
Eliza Steinbock
12. Doing Masculinity: Williams’ Stoner and Masculinity Studies
Liedeke Plate
13. Slavery, the Concubine, and the Nyai
Nancy Jouwe
Part III – (Inter)disciplinary Conjunctions to Doing Gender
14. Trinh T. Minh-Ha: Feminist Approaches to Documentary Film
Domitilla (Domi) Olivieri
15. Tanya Tagaq (Inuit): Resilient Motherhood and Gender-in-Relation
Doro Wiese
16. Performing Affect: Marina Abramović and the Politics of Emotion
Louis van den Hengel
17. Shira Spector and the Queer Feminist Politics of Graphic Medicine
Vasiliki Belia and Erin La Cour
18. Intersectional Data Feminism: Digital Data as Technologies of Oppression and Social Justice
Laura Candidatu and Koen Leurs
Biography
Rosemarie Buikema is Professor Emeritus of Art, Culture, and Diversity at Utrecht University. She has widely published in the field of Postcolonial Feminist Theory and the Arts and chaired the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University until 2023.
Liedeke Plate is Professor of Culture and Inclusivity at Radboud University. She researches the relationships between art, culture, and inclusion, focussing on literature, gender, cultural memory, and the so-called material turn in cultural studies.
Kathrin Thiele is Professor of Gender, Culture, and Ecologies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. She researches in the field of feminist critical thinking, with focus on relationality, complexity, and planetary coexistence. She is also the current director of the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University.
