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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458887703321

Titolo

Gendering border studies / / edited by Jane Aaron, Henrice Altink and Chris Weedon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-299-20075-3

0-7083-2311-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Gender Studies in Wales

Disciplina

320.12

Soggetti

Boundaries

Boundaries - Social aspects

Gender identity

Culture diffusion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Outside the Border of the Modern: MexicanMigration and the Racialized andGenderedDynamics of USNational Belonging; Accented Margins:Gendering the Bordersof Diaspora; BrazilianWomen Crossing Borders; Teacher Supply and theWales-England Border,1922-1950: aGendered Perspective; ReadingGender in Border-crossingNarratives; Taking Sides: Power-play on theWelsh Borderin Early Twentieth-centuryWomen'sWriting; 'Those Blue RememberedHills':Gender inTwentieth-centuryWelsh BorderWriting by Men; Crossing Intimate Borders:Gender, SettlerColonialismand theHome

Scottishness andGenderHistory in a Cross-border/International Context: Reinventing the Border?Sexual/CulturalHybridity in the 'New' South Africa:Emergent Sites of Transnational Queer Politics; The Construction andNegotiation of RacializedBorders in Cardiff Docklands; Locating the 'Border' inGender: Creating Coherencein Border Pedagogy; Index



Sommario/riassunto

The study of borders has recently undergone significant transitions, reflecting changes in the functions of boundaries themselves, as the world political map has experienced transformations. In the interplay with other categories of difference like class, race, ethnicity, and religion, gender plays a major role in giving meaning to different forms of borders. This book aims to explore this new interdisciplinary field; fifteen established scholars from various disciplines contribute chapters on the ways in which the issue of gender and borders has been approached in their fields, under the sub-