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

• Pubblicazione: Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2010; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.12
• Soggetto topico: Boundaries; Boundaries - Social aspects; Gender identity; Culture diffusion
• Persona (resp. second.): AaronJane; AltinkHenrice; WeedonChris
• 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-
• Titolo autorizzato: Gendering border studies
• ISBN: 1-299-20075-3; 0-7083-2311-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813119503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender studies in Wales.