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1 online resource (276 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Identities on the Move questions 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. <span style=""font-style:italic;""> |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Queering Decoloniality: Epistemic Body Politics in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood / Laura Gillman -- 2. Women's Migration, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking: Gender and Historical Approaches / Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz -- 3. Representations of Transnational and Sexual Violence in Zoe Wicomb's The One that Got Away / Cynthia Lytle -- 4. Child Sexual Abuse and Traumatic Identity in Down by the River by Edna O'Brien / Maria Elena Jaime de Pablos -- 5. Ascribe, Divide -- and Rule?: Intellectual Liminality among Ethnic, Class, Gender and Many Others / Logie Barrow -- 6. Sex, Pain, and Sickness: Performances of Identity through Spaces and Bodies / Eduardo Barros Grela -- 7. Interrogating the Posthuman in U.S. Science Fiction Films / Rocio Carrasco Carrasco -- 8. Sexuality and Gender Relationships in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea / Lucia Garcia Magaldi -- 9. Lust and Sexuality in Bronte's Jane Eyre and Rhys's Antoinette Mason / Maria Jose Coperias Aguilar -- 10. "I Am a Black Lesbian, and I Am Your Sister": Audre Lorde's Theorizing Difference as Weapon for Survival and Change / Silvia Pilar Castro Borrego -- 11. Inside and Outside of Gendered Space: Gender Migration and Little Britain from Judith Butler's Gender Trouble to Beatriz Preciado's Testo Yonqui / David Walton -- 12. Shifting Bodies and Boundaries: Representations of Female Soccer Players and the Shortfall within South African Press / Antje Schuhmann -- 13. Black Feminist Theatrical Responses to Homophobia: Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky and Cheryl L. West's Before It Hits Home / Inmaculada Pineda Hernandez -- 14. An Epic Migration: African American Women, Representation, Mis/Guided Identities, and Kathryn Stockett's The Help / Angelita Reyes -- 15. Identity and Agency in I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots: Marietta's Sexual Self / Concepcion Parrondo Carretero -- 16. Muslim Women in the Third Space: Negotiating Diaspora, Sexuality, and Identity from a Feminist Postcolonial Perspective / Mariam Bazi. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Women -- Identity.
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Women -- Identity. |
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Women immigrants.
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Women immigrants. |
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Feminism.
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Feminism. |
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Sex.
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Sex. |
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Sex role.
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Sex role. |
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Sex role in mass media.
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Sex role in mass media. |
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Women in mass media.
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Women in mass media. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Castro Borrego, Silvia del Pilar, editor.
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Romero Ruiz, María Isabel, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Castro-Borrego, Silvia Pilar. Identities on the Move : Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2014 9780739191699 |
| ISBN |
9780739191705 (electronic book) |
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0739191705 (electronic book) |
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0739191691 |
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9780739191699 |
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9781322566672 |
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1322566674 |
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