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Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance : A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Romero-Ruiz, Maria Isabel.
Other Authors: Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Thinking Gender in Transnational Times Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Praise for Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction
  • References
  • Part I Gender Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance
  • 2 Growing Resilient in Irish Magdalene Laundries: An Analysis of the Justice for Magdalenes' Oral History Project (2013) and Kathy O'Beirne's Autobiography Kathy's Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalen Laundries (2005)
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Resisting an Imposed Vulnerability Inside the Laundries: Justice for Magdalenes' Oral History Project (2013)
  • 2.3 The Aftermath of Magdalene Laundries: Kathy O'Beirne's Kathy's Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalen Laundries (2005)
  • 2.4 Conclusions
  • References
  • 3 Becoming Resilient Subjects: Vulnerability and Resistance in Emma Donoghue's Room
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Violence, Vulnerability and Parodic Resistance
  • 3.3 Resilience, Normalcy and Social Integration
  • 3.4 Conclusions
  • References
  • 4 Of Mice and Women: Gendered and Speciesist Violence in Joyce Carol Oates's 'Martyrdom'
  • 4.1 Gendered and Non-human Martyrdom
  • 4.2 Precarious Bodies: Rats and Women
  • 4.3 Conclusions
  • References
  • 5 'Nobody Kills a Priest': Irish Noir and Pathogenic Vulnerability in Benjamin Black's Holy Orders
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Pathogenic Vulnerability
  • 5.3 Counteracting Vulnerability: The Vigilante
  • 5.4 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part II Gender Vulnerability, Agency and Interdependencies
  • 6 Crime Fiction's Disobedient Gaze: Refugees' Vulnerability in Ausma Zehanat Khan's A Dangerous Crossing (2018)
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Literature, Human Rights, and the Human: The Case of the Mediterranean Sea
  • 6.3 Refugees' Vulnerability and Resistance: A Dangerous Crossing
  • 6.4 Conclusion: Towards Resistant Imaginations
  • References.
  • 7 Detection, Gender Violence and Atkinson's Jackson Brodie Series
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Empathic Detection
  • 7.3 Conclusions
  • References
  • 8 Resisting Binaries: Vulnerability, Agency and the Sovereign Subject Through a Feminist Critical Gaze
  • References
  • 9 Trans-National Neo-Victorianism, Gender and Vulnerability in Kate Grenville's The Secret River (2005)
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Historical Recollection, Gender and Vulnerability in The Secret River
  • 9.3 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part III Gender Vulnerability and Trans*/Post* Identities
  • 10 The Vulnerable Posthuman in Popular Science Fiction Cinema
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Gender Vulnerability and Popular Cinema: The Posthuman Character
  • 10.2.1 Posthuman Femininity
  • 10.2.2 The Alien Body: Under the Skin (2013)
  • 10.2.3 The Transhuman Body: Ghost in the Shell (2017)
  • 10.3 Conclusions
  • References
  • 11 Trans* Vulnerability and Resistance in the Ballroom: The Case of Pose (Season 1)
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Vulnerability and Precariousness in the Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ Community
  • 11.3 Ballroom Culture: A Communal Space for Protection and Competition
  • 11.4 The Ballroom as a Trans* Space
  • 11.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • 12 A Trans Journey Towards Resistance: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Dystopian Narrative of Manjula Padmanabhan
  • 12.1 Introduction: Contextualising Padmanabhan's Dystopian Saga
  • 12.2 Women as the Endangered Sex and the Displacement of Nature by Technology
  • 12.3 Transmasculinity and Transfemininity: Stories of Resistance
  • 12.4 Conclusions: Feminist Solidarity
  • References
  • Index.

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