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oapen-20.500.12657-544322022-05-14T02:52:30Z Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance Romero-Ruiz, Maria Isabel Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar post-human transnational gendered violence sociopolitical migration crime fiction science fiction dystopian fiction postcolonialism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSR Religious groups: social & cultural aspects bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPS Social & political philosophy This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History. 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.” 2022-05-13T12:19:08Z 2022-05-13T12:19:08Z 2022 book ONIX_20220513_9783030955083_24 9783030955083 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54432 eng Thinking Gender in Transnational Times application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-95508-3.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-95508-3 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-95508-3 10.1007/978-3-030-95508-3 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9783030955083 Palgrave Macmillan 233 Cham open access
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This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History. 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.”
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