Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times (THINKGEN)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Gender Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance
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Gender Vulnerability, Agency and Interdependencies
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Gender Vulnerability and Trans*/Post* Identities
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About this book
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.”
Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance
Book Subtitle: A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere
Editors: Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
Series Title: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95508-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95507-6Published: 13 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95510-6Published: 13 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95508-3Published: 12 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-4361
Series E-ISSN: 2947-437X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 233
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Global Cinema and TV, Literature, general, Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy