Identities on the move : contemporary representations of new sexualities and gender identities / edited by Silvia Pilar Castro-Borrego and Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castro Borrego, Silvia del Pilar, editor.

Romero Ruiz, María Isabel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Identity.

Women immigrants.

Feminism.

Sex.

Sex role.

Sex role in mass media.

Women in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Introduction

Queering Decoloniality

Women's Migration, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking

Representations of Transnational and Sexual Violence in Zoë Wicomb's The One that Got Away

Child Sexual Abuse and Traumatic Identity in Down by the River by Edna O'Brien

Ascribe, Divide-and Rule?

Sex, Pain, and Sickness

Interrogating the Posthuman in U.S. Science Fiction Films

Sexuality and Gender Relationships in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

Lust and Sexuality in Brontë's Jane Eyre and Rhys's Antoinette Mason

"I Am a Black Lesbian, and I Am Your Sister"

The Inside and Outside of Gendered Space

Shifting Bodies and Boundaries

Black Feminist Theatrical Responses to Homophobia

An Epic Migration

Identity and Agency in I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Muslim Women in the Third Space

Index

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-0876-6

0-7391-9170-5

OCLC:

899158394