Browsing by Subject "Women's Studies"
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American Realities, Diasporic Dreams: Pursuing Happiness, Love, and Girlfriendship in Jamaica
(2009)At the heart of "American Realities, Diasporic Dreams" lies the following question: How and why do people generate longings for diasporic experience, and what might this have to do with nationally-specific affective and ... -
Bargaining with the devil: States and intimate life
(Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2014-01-01)Since the 1980s, an explosion in state, international, and nongovernmental campaigns and programs propose to increase women's rights and protections in Arab countries. Women and women's rights activists often invite and ... -
Beautiful Infidels: Romance, Internationalism, and Mistranslation
(2010)This dissertation explores the particular significance of South Asia to international literary and political spheres, beginning with the formative moments of modernist internationalism. At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, ... -
Configuring Modernities: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation's Capital, 1890-1940
(2010)During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a cadre of black women merged the ideals of the "New Woman" and the "New Negro" to configure New Negro Womanhood. For these women, the combining of these two figurations ... -
Cosmetic Citizenship: Beauty, Affect and Inequality in Southeastern Brazil
(2010)This dissertation examines how perceptions of beauty in Brazil reflect both the existing social inequalities and the struggles to produce a more egalitarian society. While hegemonic discourses about beauty in Brazil foster ... -
Cover Art Concept
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Discursive and political deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian women suicide bombers/martyrs
(Feminist Review, 2005-11-01)This paper focuses on representations by and deployments of the four Palestinian women who during the first four months of 2002 killed themselves in organized attacks against Israeli military personnel or civilians in the ... -
Displacement, War, and Exile in Simone Fattal’s Works and Days
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Editorial Introduction
(Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2018-03-01) -
Engendering Genocide: Representations of Violence in the Long Twentieth Century
(2020)Genocide studies typically emphasizes economics, law, history, political science, and sociology as the disciplines most relevant to understanding the phenomenon of premeditated mass slaughter, and the scholarship has been ... -
Entering and remaking spaces: Young palestinian feminists in Jerusalem
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Eve’s Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself
(Differences, 2015-01-26)<jats:p>Responding to the theme of the special issue, Queer Theory without Antinormativity, “Eve’s Triangles” returns to the work of one of queer theory’s most important foundational figures to consider critical sensibilities ... -
Generations
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Introduction: Antinormativity's Queer Conventions
(differences, 2015-01-26)<jats:p>Can queer theory proceed without an allegiance to antinormativity? The introduction to this special issue establishes the value of this question by staging an encounter with the most widely held assumption in queer ... -
Introduction: Now, not now
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Masculine love and sensuous reason: the affective and spatial politics of Egyptian Ultras football fans
(Gender, Place and Culture, 2018-10-03)© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article uses a feminist spatial approach attentive to masculine affect and difference to analyze the language, cultural production, and practices ... -
Melancholy Sites: The Affective Politics of Marginality in Post-Anpo Japan (1960-1970)
(2011)This dissertation examines the intersection of experimental art, literature, performance, photography, and architecture, as Japanese artists and intellectuals grappled with political disillusionment after the end of the ... -
Mother, Matron, Matriarch: Sanctity and Social Change in the Cult of St. Anne, 1450-1750
(2009)As a saint with no biblical or historical basis for her legend, St. Anne could change radically over time with cultural and doctrinal shifts even as her status as Mary's mother remained at the core of her legend and provided ... -
Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Nineteenth-Century America
(2010)<italic>Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Nineteenth-Century America</italic> traces how modern ideas about gender and race became embedded in the institutions of law and government between ... -
Reading Democracy: Anthologies of African American Women's Writing and the Legacy of Black Feminist Criticism, 1970-1990
(2009)Taking as its pretext the contemporary moment of self-reflexive critique on the part of interdisciplinary programs like Women's Studies and American Studies, <italic>Reading Democracy</italic> historicizes a black feminist ...
