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Failures of Domesticity in Contemporary Russian-American Literature: Vapnyar, Krasikov, Ulinich, and Reyn

TranscUlturAl, 2011
Hybrid literature has flourished in the Russian diaspora in the last decade and much of it is semi-autobiographical, concerned with the reconfiguration of identity in emigration.
Karen Ryan
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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Las «Feministas autónomas» latinoamericanas y caribeñas: veinte años de disidencias

Universitas Humanística, 2014
I present in the article an interpretation, among other possible ones, of twenty years of history of the “autonomous” trend of Latin American and Caribbean feminism.
Jules Falquet
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Mapping the Feminist Imagination: From Redistribution to Recognition to Representation

Revista Estudos Feministas, 2007
On this article the author aims to stimulate discussion as to how reinvent the project of feminism for a globalizing world, situating those shifts, in the context of changes in postwar capitalism and post-communist geopolitics. US feminism finds itself
Nancy Fraser
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‘At Bulova, 75% of the workers are women’: Workers’ Strike and Neuchâtel’s Women’s Liberation Movement Put to the Test, 1976

DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
This article examines the involvement of Neuchâtel’s Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in the 1976 Bulova watch factory strike as a formative moment in the emergence of a ‘class struggle tendency’ within Swiss feminism.
Anne-Valérie Zuber
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2015
This paper engages the theme of “decolonizing psychological science” in the context of a perspective on psychological theory and research—namely, feminist psychology—that shares an emphasis on broad liberation.
Tuğçe Kurtiş, Glenn Adams
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Postcolonial And Transnational Approaches To Film And Feminism

The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender, 2017
The chapter summarizes the complexities of categorizing postcolonial feminist filmmaking in either a chronological or a consistent geographical pattern. They demonstrate that the postcolonial as an optic can be applied to the dialogue between the political and the aesthetic in different ways.
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