Cultural representations of gender vulnerability and resistance : : a Mediterranean approach to the Anglosphere / / edited by Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez.

• Superior document: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times,
• TeilnehmendeR: Romero-Ruiz, Maria Isabel.; Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition, 2022.
• Language: English
• Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resista...

Table of Contents

• 1.Introduction: Gender Vulnerability And Resistance
• 2. Growing Resilient Against Adversity: Victims Of Abuse In Irish Magdalene Laundries
• 3. Violence, Vulnerability And Resistance In Room By Emma Donoghue
• 4. Of Mice And Women: Gendered And Speciesist Violence In Joyce Carol Oates’s Martyrdom Fiction”
• 5. ’Nobody Kills A Priest’: Vulnerability, Crime Fiction And Irish Social Resistance In Benjamin Black’s Holy Orders
• 6. Refugees' Situated Vulnerability And Resistance In The Crime Fiction Of Ausma Zehanat Khan
• 7. Detection, Violence And The TV Series: Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie In The BBC
• 8. Resisting Binaries: Vulnerability And Agency Through A Feminist Critical Gaze
• 9. Trans- National Neo- Victorianism: Vulnerability And Gender Resistance In Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (2006)
• 10. The Vulnerable Posthuman In Popular Science Fiction Cinema
• 11. Trans* Vulnerability And Resistance: The Case Of Pose (Season 1)
• 12. Vulnerability And Resilience In The Dystopian Fiction Of Manjula Padmanabhan.