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Finding Me
(Hardcover)
Inocencia Tupas Malunes; Contributions by Sandra Lee, Fermin Rodriguez
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R651
Discovery Miles 6 510
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This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of
an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly
conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three
great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been
seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of
gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy
have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its
ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in
exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature
afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects
and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings
of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and
relations more broadly. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by
experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and
critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and
provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models
of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic
form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather
than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings
showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new
vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force
of Euripidean drama. They further demonstrate how the analytical
frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last thirty years
deeply resonate with the ways in which Euripides' plays twist
poetic form in order to challenge well-established modes of the
social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource
for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model
of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current
interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms, and
reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the
center of the interpretive act.
This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to
badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their
characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in
Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs,
dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially
marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They
commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative
events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular
contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation,
religion, genre, and identity. This collaboratively authored book
draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and
sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and
sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai's place-based
dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the
hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status
and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial
practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans
performance.
For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: She had
survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps.
Living in America after the war, she kept hidden from her children
any hint of her epic, inhuman odyssey. She held on to more than 350
letters, photographs, and a diary without ever mentioning them.
Only in 1991, on the eve of heart surgery, did she suddenly present
them to Ann, her daughter, and offer to answer any questions Ann
wished to ask.
When Sala first reported to a camp in Geppersdorf, Germany, at
the age of sixteen, she thought it would be for six weeks. Five
years later, she was still at a labor camp and only she and two of
her sisters remained alive of an extended family of fifty.
"Sala's Gift" is a heartbreaking, eye-opening story of survival
and love amidst history's worst nightmare.
This book provides an invaluable introduction to the social,
economic, and legal status of women in ancient Rome. Daily Life of
Women in Ancient Rome is an invaluable introduction to the lives of
women in the late Roman Republic and first three centuries of the
Roman Empire. Arranged chronologically and thematically, it
examines how Roman women were born, educated, married, and active
in economic, social, public, and religious life, as well as how
they were commemorated and honored after death. Though they were
excluded from formal public and military offices, wealthy Roman
women participated in public life as benefactors and in religious
life as priestesses. The book also acknowledges the status and
occupations of women taking part in public life as textile
producers, retail workers, and agricultural laborers, as well as
enslaved women. The book provides a thorough introduction to the
social history of women in the Roman world and gives students and
aspiring scholars references to current scholarship and to primary
literary and documentary sources, including collected sources in
translation. Provides students of classical or women's history with
a chronologically and thematically oriented introduction to the
demography, legal and social status, life stages, social and public
roles, occupations, and leisure activities of women in Roman
society Emphasizes primary literary and documentary sources and
provides accessible references to further reading and research
Focuses on the diversity of Roman women's experiences across the
social hierarchy Discusses both the limitations that women faced
(e.g., in Roman law and custom) and how they negotiated or
transcended these limitations Includes visually interesting images
that enhance the text
In recent years, international attention has been recurrently drawn
to violence against civilians including sexual violence during war
as a means of furthering military or political goals. The ongoing
issue of comfort women has been debated not only among Asian
countries including Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, and the
Philippines but also in numerous international forums.This book
examines the system of military comfort women in Asia and the
Pacific created and maintained by Japan during World War II. It
uses the comfort women system as a lens for exploring the ways in
which body, sexuality and identity are deployed in the creation of
patriarchal relations, ethnic hierarchies, and colonial/nationalist
power. This book analyzes the role and nature of the comfort women
system as a mechanism of social control by the colonial state. This
requires the examining of sexuality and body politics, the social
background of the victims, wartime working conditions, and
regulation of soldiers' sexuality.This book aims to contribute to
both the academic community and the community of civic groups
through a work that spans the dimensions of history, theory and
activism.
This issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, "Trans-Political
Economy," edited by Dan Irving and Vek Lewis, addresses how
capitalism differentially and unequally affects trans and
sex/gender-diverse people across the globe. "We all, from our
different social and political locations, become implicated in
those architectures through our everyday interactions with a
variety of coordinated and contradictory institutions and
rationalities that order our lives across different local and
global geopolitical spaces and scales," write Lewis and Irving. The
editors of and contributors to this issue reveal how the narrowly
constructed objects of trans studies and political economy (such as
gender, labor, class, and economy) have been complicit in the
necropolitical devaluation of trans lives and existing strategies
crafted for trans survival. Topics include trans visibility and
commodity culture; trans credit reporting; the growing population
of T-girls, trans women truckers; trans street-based sex workers;
the system of sex/gender identification for trans asylum seekers in
South Africa; and waria affective labor in Indonesia. There is also
a roundtable deconstructing trans* political economy. The Arts
& Culture section of this issue features a review of season 7
of RuPaul's Drag Race in relation to certain political-economic
elements of the drag industry as well as an in-depth look at the
representation of transgender lives on film, specifically in Dallas
Buyers Club.
By comparing the intersecting histories of interpretation of Mary
Magdalene, a first-century disciple of Jesus, and La Malinche, a
sixteenth-century Mesoamerican woman enslaved by the Spanish
conquistadores, Jennifer Vija Pietz critically evaluates the use of
past lives to address contemporaneous concerns. She demonstrates
how the earliest sources portray each woman as an agent in the
foundation of a new community: Magdalene's proclamation of Jesus's
resurrection helped form the first Christian community, while La
Malinche's role as interpreter between Spanish and native people
during the Conquest helped establish modern Mexico. Pietz then
argues that over time, various interpreters turn these real women
into malleable icons that they use to negotiate changing
conceptions of communal identity and norms. Strikingly, popular
portraits develop of both women as archetypal whores who represent
transgression-portraits that some women have experienced as
harmful. Although other interpreters present contrary portraits of
Magdalene and La Malinche as admirable emblems of female
empowerment, Pietz argues that the tendency to turn real people
into icons risks producing stereotypes that can obscure past lives
and negatively affect people in the present. In response, she
posits strategies for developing historically plausible and
ethically responsible interpretations of people of the past.
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