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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."
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."
The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become
a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in
the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender
and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a
major concern in both fields. The legacy of this process has its
origins in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the
twentieth century. The Victorian preoccupation about the female
body and sexual promiscuity was focused on the regulation of
deviant elements in society and the control of venereal disease;
homosexuals, lesbians, and prostitutes' identities were considered
out of the norm and against the moral values of the time. The
relationship between sexuality and gender identity has attracted
wide-ranging discussion amongst feminist theorists during the last
few decades. The methodologies of cultural studies and, in
particular, of post-structuralism and post-colonialism, urges us to
read and interpret different cultures and different texts in ways
that enhance personal and collective views of identity which are
culturally grounded. These readings question the postmodernist
concept of identity by looking into more progressive views of
identity and difference addressing post-positivist interpretations
of key identity markers such as sex, gender, race, and agency. As a
consequence, an individual's identity is recognized as culturally
constructed and the result of power relations. Identities on the
Move: Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender
Identities offers creative insights on pressing issues and engages
in productive dialogue. Identities on the Move to addresses the
topic of new sexualities and gender identities and their
representation in post-colonial and contemporary Anglophone
literary, historical, and cultural productions from a
trans-national, trans-cultural, and anti-essentialist perspective.
The authors include the views and concerns of people of color, of
women in the diaspora, in our evermore multiethnic and
multicultural societies, and their representation in the media,
films, popular culture, subcultures, and the arts.
This book makes an analysis of prostitution in Cambridge in the
Victorian period based on different social and cultural discourses
as well as on archival materials concerning institutions devoted to
the control and regulation of promiscuity and venereal disease.
Among them were the Cambridge Union Workhouse, the Cambridge Female
Refuge, the Spinning House (Cambridge University Female Prison) or
the town and county gaols. Also, data from the census and local and
state regulations are of great relevance in the approach to the
study of the "Great Social Evil" and its consequences for Victorian
Cambridge. The city was divided into "town and gown" at the time,
with the University having its power and regulation over all its
premises through the Vice-Chancellor's Court and its system of
proctors, while the town council regulated the areas belonging to
the city itself through the police. Therefore, University
authorities, evangelicals and the middle-class joined their efforts
to put an end to immorality, building Cambridge's architecture of
containment of sexual deviance.
The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become
a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in
the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender
and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a
major concern in both fields. The legacy of this process has its
origins in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the
twentieth century. The Victorian preoccupation about the female
body and sexual promiscuity was focused on the regulation of
deviant elements in society and the control of venereal disease;
homosexuals, lesbians, and prostitutes' identities were considered
out of the norm and against the moral values of the time. The
relationship between sexuality and gender identity has attracted
wide-ranging discussion amongst feminist theorists during the last
few decades. The methodologies of cultural studies and, in
particular, of post-structuralism and post-colonialism, urges us to
read and interpret different cultures and different texts in ways
that enhance personal and collective views of identity which are
culturally grounded. These readings question the postmodernist
concept of identity by looking into more progressive views of
identity and difference addressing post-positivist interpretations
of key identity markers such as sex, gender, race, and agency. As a
consequence, an individual's identity is recognized as culturally
constructed and the result of power relations. Identities on the
Move: Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender
Identities offers creative insights on pressing issues and engages
in productive dialogue. Identities on the Move to addresses the
topic of new sexualities and gender identities and their
representation in post-colonial and contemporary Anglophone
literary, historical, and cultural productions from a
trans-national, trans-cultural, and anti-essentialist perspective.
The authors include the views and concerns of people of color, of
women in the diaspora, in our evermore multiethnic and
multicultural societies, and their representation in the media,
films, popular culture, subcultures and the arts.
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