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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale, and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies.
This interdisciplinary collection seeks to understand the complex nexus at which gender and the borderlands intersect, modelling radical relationality at epistemological, ontological, and activist levels. Going beyond border studies’ frequent site at the US-Mexico Border, this book examines the power relations of borderlands as they play out in, influence, and reflect gender dynamics. Featuring contributors draw on case studies from around the world, and their chapters span diverse fields from anthropology, literature and history, to political science, religious studies, sociology, and the arts.
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies, gender studies, and the wide range of interlocking disciplines that inform and enrich these fields.
Lists of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part One: Introduction to Gender and Borderlands
1. Introduction: The Case for Globalizing Gender and Borderlands
Zalfa Feghali and Deborah Toner
2. Approaches to Gender Studies
Elliot Evans
3. Approaches to Border Studies
Caleb Bailey
Part Two: Intimate Borders
4. Border Women, Queer Mestizas, and Nagualas: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands Ontologies
Suzanne Bost
5. Masculinity and Homosociality in Colonial-Carceral Borderlands: Australia, Bermuda and Gibraltar, 1824-75
Katherine Roscoe
6. Gender, Mobility, and Borders in Transoceanic Migrations in the Indian Ocean Region: The South Asian Diaspora to Africa 1914-1930
Kalpana Hiralal
7. Intimate Saharan Borders in Crisis Times: Mixed Marriages and Humanitarian Aid Workers in the Sahara-Sahel
Amalia Dragani
8. The Intimate is International: Reproductive Health Dynamics in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands
Andréanne Bissonnette
9. Intimate Borders of South Asian Queer Diasporas in the UK
Dhiren Borisa and Gavin Brown
Part Three: Cultural and Civic Borders
10. Connecting Women across the Mountains: Gendered, Geopolitical and Interspecies Liminality in the Making of Buddhist Communities of the Contemporary Himalayas
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
11. The Limits of National Legislation in Local and Transnational Spaces: How to Protect Trokosi Girls in Ghana?
Nathalie Raunet
12. Gendered Framing of Asylum Reception as “borderwork” at the Finnish-Swedish Borderland
Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
13. Intersecting Gender through New Media Art: Visual Inquiry on a Recent Migration Phenomenon in Europe and Beyond
Katarzyna Kosmala
14. Screening Mohawk Stories: Gender and Cinema in Kanien’kehá:ka Territory
Gillian Roberts
15. Alcohol, Temperance, and the Shifting Borders of Gender, 1750-1850
Deborah Toner and Natasha Bailey
Part Four: Embodied and Violent Borders
16. Beyond Physical Borders: Intimate Borders and the Lives of Women in Kashmir
Roonaq un Nisa
17. The Borders of Abortion and Identity: Moral Shadowboxing on the Island of Ireland, 1920-2018
Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Diane Urquhart
18. Contemporary Indigenous and Chicana Women Writers’ Experiences of Rape Culture and Psychopathy
Hannah Spruce
19. The Borders of Femicide and Gender Violence in Guatemala
Lynn Stephen
20. Podcasting and Gender-Based Violence in Canada, the US, and Mexico
Zalfa Feghali
21. The Intimacy of Violence: Family Experiences of Bolivian Aymara Women in The Andean Tri-Border
Menara Guizardi
Part Five – Economic Borders
22. Gender Difference in the South Pacific Labor Trade: An Examination of Labor Mobility and Shifting Identity in the Australian/Melanesian Context
Naomi Alisa Calnitsky
23. Gender and Labor in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Sonia Hernández
24. Women on the Andean Border of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
Carolina Stefoni and Marcela Tapia
25. Recasting Gender: Precarity, Exchange, and Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Borderlands
Malini Sur
26. Gendered Dynamics of Cross-border Trade in West Africa
Olivier J. Walther and Leena Koni Hoffmann
27. Informal Trade and Gendered Resistance on the Belarus-Lithuania Borderland
Olga Sasunkevich
Part Six: Changing, Challenging, Resisting
28. Relational Ecologies in Contemporary Chicana Border Art
Stephanie Lewthwaite
29. Literary Activism, Women's Activism and Social Production in 21st-Century Uganda
Madhu Krishnan
30. Black Women and Transnational Resistance
Nele Sawallisch
31. Unaccompanied Minors in the Borderlands: Suspicions and Assumptions at the Intersection of Gender and Social Age
Christina Clark-Kazak
32. The Politics of "Dis/appearing": Visibility, Desire, and Violence in a Dance Performance by a North Korean Women's Performing Arts Troupe in South Korea
Iain Sands
33. Teaching-inspired Research, Critical Pedagogies, and Educational Resources
Zalfa Feghali and Deborah Toner
Index
Biography
Zalfa Feghali is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. An American Studies scholar, she works primarily on contemporary North American literature and culture and publishes in border studies, reading studies, and vulnerability studies. She is the author of Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship: Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing (2019) and convenes the Vulnerability Studies Network.
Deborah Toner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Leicester, UK. She publishes on the history of alcohol in the Americas, with a particular focus on ideas of nationhood, gender, race, and ethnicity in Mexico, the United States, and Guyana. She is author of Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (2015), editor of Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire and War (2021). She has been co-Director of the Drinking Studies Network since 2010.
