Gendering Border Studies

Description

The study of borders has recently undergone significant transitions, reflecting the transformation of the world political map as well as the changes in the ways boundaries themselves function. In Gendering Border Studies sixteen established scholars from a variety of disciplines examine how the issue of gender and borders has been approached in their field and describe what they expect from future research. This book will be of interest to scholars of border studies, gender studies, social anthropology, international politics, comparative literature, and Welsh studies.

Sujets

• Women's Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 30 juin 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783164219
• Langue: English

Extrait

GENDERING BORDER STUDIES
Gender Studies in Wales Astudiaethau Rhywedd yng Nghymru
Series Editors
Jane Aaron, University of Glamorgan
Brec’hed Piette, Bangor University
Sian Rhiannon Williams, University of Wales Institute Cardiff
Series Advisory Board
Deirdre Beddoe, Emeritus Professor
Mihangel Morgan, Aberystwyth University
Teresa Rees, Cardiff University
The aim of this series is to fill a current gap in knowledge. As a number of historians, sociologists and literary critics have for some time been pointing out, there is a dearth of published research on the characteristics and effects of gender difference in Wales, both as it affected lives in the past and as it continues to shape present-day experience. Socially constructed concepts of masculine and feminine difference influence every aspect of individuals’ lives; experiences in employment, in education, in culture and politics, as well as in personal relationships, are all shaped by them. Ethnic identities are also gendered; a country’s history affects its concepts of gender difference so that what is seen as appropriately ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ varies within different cultures. What is needed in the Welsh context is more detailed research on the ways in which gender difference has operated and continues to operate within Welsh societies. Accordingly, this interdisciplinary and bilingual series of volumes on Gender Studies in Wales, authored by academics who are leaders in their particular fields of study, is designed to explore the diverse aspects of male and female identities in Wales, past and present. The series is bilingual, in the sense that some of its intended volumes will be in Welsh and some in English.
GENDERING BORDER STUDIES
Edited by
Jane Aaron, Henrice Altink and Chris Weedon
© The Contributors, 2010
Reprinted 2011
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Cover illustration: Self Portrait Between the Borderline of Mexico and the United States by Frida Kahlo © 2010 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F. / DACS. Christie’s Images Ltd/ARTOTHEK.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Henrice Altink and Chris Weedon
I. MIGRATION AND GENDER
1 Outside the Border of the Modern: Mexican Migration and the Racialized and Gendered Dynamics of US National Belonging Deborah Cohen
2 Accented Margins: Gendering the Borders of Diaspora Janet Bauer
3 Brazilian Women Crossing Borders Suzana Maia
4 Teacher Supply and the Wales–England Border, 1922–1950: a Gendered Perspective Sian Rhiannon Williams
II. GENDERING NARRATIVES OF BORDER CROSSING
5 Reading Gender in Border-crossing Narratives Johan Schimanski
6 Taking Sides: Power-play on the Welsh Border in Early Twentieth-century Women’s Writing Jane Aaron
7 ‘Those Blue Remembered Hills’: Gender in Twentieth-century Welsh Border Writing by Men Katie Gramich
III. GENDER AND THE DRAWING OF INTERNAL BORDERS
8 Crossing Intimate Borders: Gender, Settler Colonialism and the Home Margaret D. Jacobs
9 Scottishness and Gender History in a Cross-border/International Context: Reinventing the Border? Siân Reynolds
10 Sexual/Cultural Hybridity in the ‘New’ South Africa: Emergent Sites of Transnational Queer Politics William J. Spurlin
11 The Construction and Negotiation of Racialized Borders in Cardiff Docklands Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon
IV. TEACHING GENDERED BORDERS
12 Locating the ‘Border’ in Gender: Creating Coherence in Border Pedagogy Jocelyn C. Ahlers and Kim Knowles-Yánez
Notes on Contributors
J ANE A ARON is a professor of English at the University of Glamorgan, where she teaches Welsh writing in English and research skills. Her recently published books include Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity (University of Wales Press, 2007), which was awarded the Roland Mathias Prize in 2009.
J OCELYN C. A HLERS is associate professor of linguistics in the Liberal Studies Department at California State University San Marcos. Her areas of research include gender and language, language socialization, cognitive linguistics and the documentation and revitalization of endangered Native California languages.
H ENRICE A LTINK is a lecturer in modern history at the University of York. She has published on representations of slave women in discourses of slavery and abolition and is currently studying the ideologies of femininity in the African Jamaican community between 1865 and 1938.
J ANET B AUER , former director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program, teaches at Trinity College (Hartford, CT). Her research and publications focus on the consequences of migration and resettlement for women and families in Muslim communities. Her translation of a Persian memoir, I am Raziye: The Life of an Iranian Woman Political Activist is forthcoming.
D EBORAH C OHEN has a position in history at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. She has published in various journals, among them Journal of American Ethnic History, Hispanic American Historical Review, Estudios Sociológicos and International Labor and Working Class History , and her co-edited volume, Sex and Gender in 1968: Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination , was recently published with Palgrave Macmillan. In addition, her book, Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in Postwar United States and Mexico , will be published by University of North Carolina Press in September 2010.
K ATIE G RAMICH is a reader in English literature at Cardiff University. She has research interests in modern Welsh writing in English, Welsh women’s writing, and postcolonial and travel literature. Her most recent publication is Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging (University of Wales Press, 2007).
M ARGARET J ACOBS is a professor of history and the director of women’s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her book, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 , was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2009.
G LENN J ORDAN , a reader in cultural studies at the University of Glamorgan and director of Butetown History & Arts Centre in Cardiff docklands, has published widely on visual culture, race, representation and immigrants and minorities in Wales. His books include Cultural Politics (with Chris Weedon, 1994) and Somali Elders: Portraits from Wales (2004). He is currently writing Race for Routledge’s New Critical Idiom series.
K IM K NOWLES -Y ÁNEZ is associate professor of urban and regional planning in the Liberal Studies Department at California State University San Marcos. Her areas of research include land use and community planning, public participation, and children’s issues.
S UZANA M AIA is Professor at Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Brazil, investigating the role of anthropologists in the political organizing of indigenous people in Bahia. Her Ph.D., from the City University of New York, focused on Brazilian women immigrants who worked in the sex industry in that city, looking at issues such as transnationalism, postcolonialism, gender and sexuality.
S IÂN R EYNOLDS is emerita professor of French at Stirling University, a co-editor of the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (2006) and a founder member of Women’s History Scotland. Her latest book is Paris–Edinburgh: Cultural Connections in the Belle Epoque (2007).
J OHAN S CHIMANSKI is associate professor of comparative literature at the Department of Culture and Literature, University of Tromsø, Norway. He has worked on literary forgeries, literature in Welsh, science fiction, genre theory, national identity in literature, post-colonialism and arctic discourses. Co-leader of the border poetics working group at the University of Tromsø, he co-edited (with Stephen Wolfe) the anthology Border Poetics De-Limited (Wehrhahn, 2007).
W ILLIAM J. S PURLIN is Professor of English at the University of Sussex where he also directs the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change. His most recent books are Imperialism within the Margins: Queer Representation and the Politics of Culture in Southern Africa (2006) and Lost Intimacies: Rethinking Homosexuality under National Socialism (2008). He has published widely in queer and postcolonial studies and in twentieth-century comparative literature and culture.
C HRIS W EEDON is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. Her books include Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory (1987); Cultural Politics (with Glenn Jordan, 1994); Postwar Women’s Writing in German (ed., 1997); Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference (1999); Identit