The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies.
This interdisciplinary collection seeks to understand the complex nexus at which gender and the borderlands intersect, modelling radical relationality at epistemological, ontological, and activist levels. Going beyond border studies’ frequent site at the U.S.–Mexico Border, this book examines the power relations of borderlands as they play out in, influence, and reflect gender dynamics. Contributors draw on case studies from around the world, and their chapters span diverse fields from anthropology, literature, and history, to political science, religious studies, sociology, and the arts.
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies, gender studies, and the wide range of interlocking disciplines that inform and enrich these fields.
Chapters 1, 15 and 20 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale, and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies. It is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies and gender studies.
Part One: Introduction to Gender and Borderlands
1. Introduction
2.
Approaches to Gender Studies
3. Approaches to Border Studies Part Two:
Intimate Borders Introduction
4. Border Women, Queer Mestizas, and Nagualas:
Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands Ontologies
5. Masculinity and Homosociality in
Colonial-Carceral Borderlands: Australia, Bermuda and Gibraltar, 1824-75
6.
Gender, Mobility, and Borders in Transoceanic Migrations in the Indian Ocean
Region: The South Asian Diaspora to Africa 1914-1930
7. Intimate Saharan
Borders in Crisis Times: Mixed Marriages and Humanitarian Aid Workers in the
Sahara-Sahel
8. The Intimate is International: Reproductive Health Dynamics
in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands
9. Intimate Borders of South Asian Queer
Diasporas in the UK Part Three: Cultural and Civic Borders Introduction
10.
Connecting Women across the Mountains: Gendered, Geopolitical and
Interspecies Liminality in the Making of Buddhist Communities of the
Contemporary Himalayas
11. The Limits of National Legislation in Local and
Transnational Spaces: How to Protect Trokosi Girls in Ghana?
12. Gendered
Framing of Asylum Reception as Borderwork at the Finnish-Swedish Borderland
13. Intersecting Gender through New Media Art: Visual Inquiry on a Recent
Migration Phenomenon in Europe and Beyond
14. Screening Mohawk Stories:
Gender and Cinema in Kanienkehá:ka Territory
15. Alcohol, Temperance, and
the Shifting Borders of Gender, 1750-1850 Part Four: Embodied and Violent
Borders Introduction
16. Beyond Physical Borders: Intimate Borders and the
Lives of Women in Kashmir
17. The Borders of Abortion and Identity: Moral
Shadowboxing on the Island of Ireland, 1920-2018
18. Psychopathic Cultures:
Sexual and Lateral Violence in Contemporary Chicana and Métis Womens Writing
19. The Borders of Femicide and Gender Violence in Guatemala
20. Podcasting
and Gender-Based Violence in Canada, the US, and Mexico
21. The Intimacy of
Violence: Family Experiences of Bolivian Aymara Women in The Andean
Tri-Border Part Five: Economic Borders Introduction
22. Gender Difference in
the South Pacific Labor Trade: An Examination of Labor Mobility and Shifting
Identity in the Australian/Melanesian Context
23. Gender and Labor in the
US-Mexico Borderlands
24. Women on the Andean Border of Chile, Bolivia, and
Peru
25. Recasting Gender: Precarity, Exchange, and Smuggling across the
India-Bangladesh Borderlands
26. Gendered Dynamics of Cross-border Trade in
West Africa
27. Informal Trade and Gendered Resistance on the
Belarus-Lithuania Borderland Part Six: Changing, Challenging, Resisting
Introduction
28. Relational Ecologies in Contemporary Chicana Border Art
29.
Literary Activism, Women's Activism and Social Production in 21st-Century
Uganda
30. Black Women and Transnational Resistance
31. Unaccompanied Minors
in the Borderlands: Suspicions and Assumptions at the Intersection of Gender
and Social Age
32. The Politics of "Dis/appearing": Visibility, Desire, and
Violence in a Dance Performance by a North Korean Women's Performing Arts
Troupe in South Korea
33. Teaching-inspired Research, Critical Pedagogies,
and Educational Resources
Zalfa Feghali is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. An American Studies scholar, she works primarily on contemporary North American literature and culture and publishes in border studies, reading studies, and vulnerability studies. She is the author of Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship: Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing (2019).
Deborah Toner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Leicester, UK. She publishes on the history of alcohol in the Americas, with a particular focus on ideas of nationhood, gender, race, and ethnicity in Mexico, the United States, and Guyana. She is the author of Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (2015) and the editor of Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire and War (2021). She was a coFounder and coDirector of the Drinking Studies Network from 2010 to 2024.
