In the Crossfire of History : : Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South /

In the Crossfire of History : : Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South / / ed. by Lava Asaad, Fayeza Hasanat.

In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been batte...

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MitwirkendeR:
Akhter, Farzana,
Asaad, Lava,
Garcia-Santana, Lucia,
García-Santana, Lucía,
Hageman, Margaret,
Hasanat, Fayeza,
Khan, Nyla Ali,
Khan, Nyla,
Nahar, Shafinur,
Omran, Doaa,
Ownbey, Carolyn,
Quazi, Moumin,
Sevcik, Stefanie,
Spencer, Matthew,
HerausgeberIn:
Asaad, Lava,
Hasanat, Fayeza,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:War Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.) :; 13 b&w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Portraits of Resistance
  • I Representations of Resistance in Art and Media
  • 1 Syrian Women’s Prison Art: Toward a Poetics of Creative Insurgency
  • 2 Moving beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Bangladeshi War Movies
  • 3 Structuring Jineology within Global Feminism: Representations of Kurdish Women Fighters in Western Media
  • II Literature and Resistance
  • 4 All the Female Bodies: Female Resistance and Political Consciousness in Testimonies of the Dirty War in Argentina
  • 5 The Woman from Tantoura: An Autotheoretical Reading in the Art of Resistance
  • 6 South Asian Women and Hybrid Identities: Narratives of Abduction and Displacement in Partition Literature
  • 7 Writing Solidarity: Women in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India
  • 8 Sri Lankan Postcolonial Inversion and a “Thousand Mirrors” of Resistance
  • III Advocacy/Activism
  • 9 Kashmiri Women Activists in the Aftermath of the Partition of India
  • 10 Teaching Narratives of Rape Survivors of the Bangladesh War in a Classroom: A Survey
  • 11 They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless: Women-Led Global Environmental Advocacy and Its Enemies
  • Conclusion: Detangling Resistance
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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