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Drawing on border thinking, postcolonial and transnational feminisms and queer theory, Gender, Sexuality and Identity of the Borderlands brings an intersectional feminist and queer lens to understandings of borderlands, liminality and lives lived at the margins of socio-cultural and sexual normativities.

This book sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis, ethics and politics of love. The contributors raise questions about social power and domination, situating their research in a materialist feminist perspective that investigates love historically, in order to understand changing ideologies, representations and practices. The essays range from studies of particular representations and examples of love, to feminist theories of love and marriage, to ethical and political theories describing, critiquing or advocating the use of love in groups as a radical force.

"The underlying theme of this edited collection is gendered citizenship, as well as the challenges and limits that confront the gendering of citizenship. It critiques the notion of the genderless nation-state citizen in both analytical and policy terms and contexts and necessarily engages with at least three major sets of contradictions or tensions: limitations on achieving gender equal or gender equitable citizenship; relations and differences between gender equality policy, diversity policy, and gender mainstreaming; and interplays of academic analyses of and practical interventions on gendered citizenship. Contributors from diverse scientific disciplines and academic backgrounds aim to provide a better understanding of the challenges that societies within Europe and elsewhere face vis-a-vis diversity, regionalism, transnationalism, and migration."--

This collection responds to the need to re-evaluate the very important concept of citizenship in light of recent feminist debates. In contrast to the dominant universalizing concepts of citizenship, the volume argues that citizenship should be theorized on many different levels and in reference to diverse public and private contexts and experiences. The book seeks to demonstrate that the concept of citizenship needs to be understood from a gendered intersectional perspective and argues that, though it is often constructed in a universal way, it is not possible to interpret and indeed understand citizenship without situating it within a specific political, legal, cultural, social, and historical context.

Highlights the issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with reflections, this title focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion based on race, class and sexuality.

Offers perspectives and case analyses that contribute to the development of fresh approaches to thinking about sexuality and its relationship to gender that go beyond existing theories and practices.

Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. It highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both men and women, masculinity and femininity. The "war question for feminism" marks a thematic red thread throughout; it is a call to students and scholars of feminism to take seriously and engage with the task of analyzing war. Contributors analyze how war-making is intertwined with the making of gender in a diversity of empirical case studies, organized around four themes: gender, violence and militarism; how the making of gender is connected to a (re)making of the nation through military practices; UN SCR 1325 and gender mainstreaming in institutional practices; and gender subjectivities in the organization of violence, exploring the notion of violent women and non-violent men.

This volume centers on theories and methodologies for postgraduate feminist researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research, in a context of increasing globalization, giving special attention to cutting-edge approaches at the borders between humanities and social sciences and specific discipline-transgressing fields such as feminist technoscience studies.

This volume gathers contributors from around the globe to explore various issues relating to men, gender relations, and transnationalism. Transnational processes - transnationalizations - take various forms, with major substantive, policy and theoretical implications for gender relations. In this context, men and gender relations can no longer be understood only locally or nationally. Thus, this collection focuses on men considered transnationally - that is, as ¿transnational men¿ - recognizing both stable transnational patterns and transnational processes of flux, especially at this current historical moment.

Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality has been taken up (or indeed contested) by activists in order to expose and resist privilege.

In a time of growing demand for methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality, this edited collection focuses on emergent writing methodologies in feminist studies. It explores some of the central politics, ideas, and power dimensions that condition and shape knowledge, elaborates with critical, embodied, reflective and situated writing practices and discusses the relationship between author, text and audiences. The book is excellent literature for postgraduates, researchers and academics in feminist and intersectionality studies, and helpful as guidance for writing sessions and workshops.

Through a series of case studies of groups challenging social inequalities - based in class, race, culture, nationality, sexuality, religion, age, and disability - this book develops a critical-theoretical account of forms of resistance. It explores how people make sense of their subjectivity as they are constructed and reconstructed within relations of power, and what kinds of subjectivities are needed to struggle against forms of dominance. While each contribution to the volume foregrounds particular subjectivities, they apply an intersectional analysis to the particular sites of the struggle they are addressing.

This volume maps the intersection between war and violence from a gendered postcolonial perspective. Its unique analyses disrupt traditional notions of violence by exploring the transition from conflict to resolution. It accounts for the history of empire and its lingering influence into present-day configurations of gender, race, nationality, class and sexuality.

This co-authored volume explores multiple links between academic and creative writing practices and writing methodologies from feminist and intersectional perspectives. It discusses what it means for academic writing processes to consciously write in and from intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality.

Exploring the use of assisted reproduction technologies in many different locations, this volume addresses five central themes--transnational reproflows, national constraints and conditions, religious and other kinds of fundamentalism, demographic agendas and biopolitics, and "new normals" and their discontents--to provide a general understanding of policies, discourses and practices of ARTs in the contemporary world.

If much of the existing masculinity scholarship has traditionally been grounded in a specific discipline, this project provides an innovative methodological approach to the subject of literary masculinities by proving the applicability of interdisciplinary masculinity scholarship -namely, sociology, social work, psychology, economics, political science, ecology, etc.- to the literary analysis, bridging the traditional gap between the Social Sciences and the Humanities in radically new and profound ways.

Within Feminism and the Power of Love lies the central argument that, although love is a crucial site of gendered power asymmetries, it is also a vital source of human empowerment that we cannot live without. Instead of emphasizing "either-or", this enlightening title puts the dualities and contradictions of love center stage.