Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance : : A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere.

• Superior document: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times Series
• Author: Romero-Ruiz, Maria Isabel.
• TeilnehmendeR: Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I Gender Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance -- 2 Growing Resilient in Irish Magdalene Laundries: An Analysis of the Justice for Magdalenes' Oral History Project (2013) and Kathy O'Beirne's Autobiography Kathy's Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalen Laundries (2005) -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Resisting an Imposed Vulnerability Inside the Laundries: Justice for Magdalenes' Oral History Project (2013) -- 2.3 The Aftermath of Magdalene Laundries: Kathy O'Beirne's Kathy's Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalen Laundries (2005) -- 2.4 Conclusions -- References -- 3 Becoming Resilient Subjects: Vulnerability and Resistance in Emma Donoghue's Room -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Violence, Vulnerability and Parodic Resistance -- 3.3 Resilience, Normalcy and Social Integration -- 3.4 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Of Mice and Women: Gendered and Speciesist Violence in Joyce Carol Oates's 'Martyrdom' -- 4.1 Gendered and Non-human Martyrdom -- 4.2 Precarious Bodies: Rats and Women -- 4.3 Conclusions -- References -- 5 'Nobody Kills a Priest': Irish Noir and Pathogenic Vulnerability in Benjamin Black's Holy Orders -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Pathogenic Vulnerability -- 5.3 Counteracting Vulnerability: The Vigilante -- 5.4 Conclusions -- References -- Part II Gender Vulnerability, Agency and Interdependencies -- 6 Crime Fiction's Disobedient Gaze: Refugees' Vulnerability in Ausma Zehanat Khan's A Dangerous Crossing (2018) -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Literature, Human Rights, and the Human: The Case of the Mediterranean Sea -- 6.3 Refugees' Vulnerability and Resistance: A Dangerous Crossing -- 6.4 Conclusion: Towards Resistant Imaginations -- References.

7 Detection, Gender Violence and Atkinson's Jackson Brodie Series -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Empathic Detection -- 7.3 Conclusions -- References -- 8 Resisting Binaries: Vulnerability, Agency and the Sovereign Subject Through a Feminist Critical Gaze -- References -- 9 Trans-National Neo-Victorianism, Gender and Vulnerability in Kate Grenville's The Secret River (2005) -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Historical Recollection, Gender and Vulnerability in The Secret River -- 9.3 Conclusions -- References -- Part III Gender Vulnerability and Trans*/Post* Identities -- 10 The Vulnerable Posthuman in Popular Science Fiction Cinema -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Gender Vulnerability and Popular Cinema: The Posthuman Character -- 10.2.1 Posthuman Femininity -- 10.2.2 The Alien Body: Under the Skin (2013) -- 10.2.3 The Transhuman Body: Ghost in the Shell (2017) -- 10.3 Conclusions -- References -- 11 Trans* Vulnerability and Resistance in the Ballroom: The Case of Pose (Season 1) -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Vulnerability and Precariousness in the Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ Community -- 11.3 Ballroom Culture: A Communal Space for Protection and Competition -- 11.4 The Ballroom as a Trans* Space -- 11.5 Conclusions -- References -- 12 A Trans Journey Towards Resistance: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Dystopian Narrative of Manjula Padmanabhan -- 12.1 Introduction: Contextualising Padmanabhan's Dystopian Saga -- 12.2 Women as the Endangered Sex and the Displacement of Nature by Technology -- 12.3 Transmasculinity and Transfemininity: Stories of Resistance -- 12.4 Conclusions: Feminist Solidarity -- References -- Index.