1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing

Edited By Ina C. Seethaler, Tripthi Pillai Copyright 2025
304 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women’s writing in the global context. Movements and experiences continuously shaping the twenty-first century clarify the urgent need for expanding and re-envisioning academic and social definitions of... Read more

Introduction: Centering Peripheralized Spaces and Voices

 

Part I: Politics and Conflict

Reading the Cold War of the 1970s through the Lens of Women’s Press: The Case of Women’s Voice Magazine in Turkey,

Gamze Sarıtunalı Elverişli and Faika Çelik

 

Dolly Mixtures: A Women’s Writing Group amidst Conflict,

Ashley M. Morin

 

Vietnamese American Women’s Writing: Claiming the Space in-between,

Luna Chung

 

Heroine Chicks: Reporting for Duty on the Front Page,

Farrah Hersh

 

Social Media and Women in Politics,

Devjani Roy

 

How Can the Personal Stories of Twenty-first-century Refugee and Migrant Girls Be

Heard? The Dilemma of Coming to Voice on Digital Platforms,

Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz

 

Part II: The Body and Resistance

Individual and Communal Resistance in Contemporary Reproductive Dystopias,

Raluca Andreescu

 

Writing the Dalit Transwoman: Caste and Queer Intersectionalities in India,

Natasha Negi and Antara Chatterjee

 

A Conversation about Transfeminism with Mijke van der Drift and Nat Raha

 

Part III: Language and Creative Writing

 

Reshaping Polynesian Narrative: Chantal Spitz and Her Audacious Counter-Discourse against Colonial Oppression and Factitious Myth,

Sandrine Teixidor

 

Voices of Mia Farang: Thai Lower-Middle-Class Women’s Storytelling from the Late

1990s-2017,

Pattarat Phantprasit

 

Claudia Piñeiro’s Un comunista en calzoncillos: A Father’s Non-Hegemonic Masculinity

and Manliness,

Carolina Rocha

 

Translatorship Empowering Feminism: Xue Qiying’s Translation of and Commentary

on Milian hunshi [Milian’s Marital Story] (1924),

Wenxi Li

 

Complaining of Work in Blogs: Women Teachers’ Rhetorical Labour of Denouncing Injustice,

Momoyo Mitsuno

 

From Jane Eyre to Xuela Claudette Richardson: Reading Charlotte Bronte through

Jamaica Kincaid, Manisha Basu

 

Caught in-between: Chinese Feminism in Contemporary Script Writing for TV Dramas

Kacey Jianwen Liu

 

Women’s Language at the Intersections of Linguistic Change and Identity,

Becky Childs

 

Part IV: Nature and Ecofeminism

 

Magic and Terror in Easterine Kire’s Ecological Fiction: Indigenous Naga Ecofeminism

and Conservation Ethics,

Lucy Keneikhrienuo Yhome and Meghna Christina Mudaliar

 

Temporality, Cyclones, and Planetary Fiction: The Case of Mutiny by Lindsay Collen

Gargi Binju

 

Global Women’s Writing and Eco-Cosmopolitanism,

Sukanya Gupta

 

Part V: Artistic Expressions and Women’s Empowerment

 

Writing/Righting the Indian City: Graffiti and the Gendered Semiotics of Excess,

Sanchita Khurana

 

Interpreting Female Bodies, Envisaging Female Identity: Investigating Visual Culture and Orality in Women-Centric Sanjhi in North India,

Muskan Dhandhi and Suman Sigroha

 

Hilarious, Sad and Didactic: Hanane el-Fadili’s Tribute to Older Unmarried Women in Her Comedy Show The Daughters of Si Taher,

Sarali Gintsburg

Biography

Ina C. Seethaler received her Ph.D. in English with a graduate minor in Women’s and Gender Studies from Saint Louis University. She serves as Associate Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, USA. Her research connects gender, migration, and literature. She has published, among others, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, a/ b: Auto/Biography Studies, Feminist Formations, and American Studies. Her book Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice on immigrant women’s life writing, nationality, and social justice was published in 2021.

Tripthi Pillai holds a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago. A Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, USA, she serves as Associate Dean in the College for Humanities and Fine Arts. Her recent publications include “Mourner-Confessors: The Masala Intercommunity of Women in Rudaali and Hamlet” in postmedieval; “Rash’s Shakespearean Ecologies: Autopoietic and Allopoietic Remediations of Serena in Macbeth” in Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash; “Cute Lacerations in Doctor Faustus and Omkara” in The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness; and “Shoe Talk and Shoe Silence in The Two Gentlemen of Verona” in Object Oriented Environs.