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Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands: Queering the Margins book cover

1st Edition

Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands Queering the Margins

Edited By Suzanne Clisby Copyright 2020
238 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Drawing on border thinking, postcolonial and transnational feminisms, and queer theory, Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands brings an intersectional feminist and queer lens to understandings of borderlands, liminality, and lives lived at the margins of socio-cultural and sexual normativities. Bringing together new and contemporary interdisciplinary research from across... Read more

1. Framing the Margins: Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands

Suzanne Clisby

Section I: Identities in the Borderlands

2. Queering Spaces and Borders Resignifying a Third Space in Angelina Maccarone’s Fremde Haut (Unveiled) (2005) and Sébastien Lifshitz’s Wild Side (2004)

Asuncion Aragon

3. Celebrating One’s Natural Tendencies: Essex Hemphill’s ‘Borderland’ in ‘Ceremonies’

Emilio Amideo

4. Bordering Life: South African Necropolitics and LGBTI Migrants

Matthew Beetar

Section II: Travelling Through Borderlands

5. (Re)Training the Western Eye: European Equalities Research in Transnational Feminist Perspective

Athena-Maria Enderstein

6. Bordered Imaginations: The Politics of Reading and Receptions of ‘Third World’ Women’s Literary Texts in Transnational Spheres

Asma Abdi

Section III: Living in the Borderlands

7. Female (ex)-Combatants in Colombia: Inhabiting Ideological, Geographic and Embodied Borderlands

Yoana F. Nieto Valdivieso

8. Borderlands of (In)Security: The Subject Position of Ethnic Minority Women in Myanmar

Elena Di Padova

9. Navigating the Borderlands: Adult Survivors’ Experiences of Child Sexual Exploitation

Theresa Redmond

10. Living on the Borders: Women, Haiti and the Restavèk System of Child Slavery

Fiona de Hoog Cius

11. Wives as Doorways of Citizenship: Indo-Bangladesh Enclaves and the Repositioning of Gender Relations

Arpita Chakraborty

12. Women Queering the Margins of Male Space? Female Construction Workers as ‘Border Bodies’ in Bangladesh

Tanzina Choudhury and Suzanne Clisby

Section IV: Arriving Home

13. A Place to Call "Home": Home and Belonging amongst Lesbians and Feminists in Greece

Diana Manesi

14. Homeplaces

Kathleen Lennon

Biography

Suzanne Clisby is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on gender, anthropology, and development in both UK and international contexts. Recent publications include Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing Through the Lifecourse (2016).

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