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.