Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks: The Making of Cultural Resistance (Comparative Feminist Studies)

Transnational Borderlands: The Making of Cultural Resistance in Women's Global Networks investigates the implications of transnational feminist methodologies at multiple levels: collective actions, theory, pedagogy, discursive, and visual productions. It addresses a substantial gap in the field of transnational feminisms; namely, the absence of a voice that links social and theoretical outcomes to the politics of representation in literature, visual art, discourses of rights and citizenships, and pedagogy. The book encompasses three categories of relevance to contemporary transnational methodologies: the politics of cultural representation in literature and visual art, the de-centering of human/women's rights, and pedagogies of crossing and dissent. Given current interest in the cultures of globalization and the role women and other minorities play in them, we expect this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of Women's and Gender Studies, Borderlands Studies, Transnational Studies, and to anyone interested in how transnational processes shape a culture of resistance in women's global networks. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Series Editor’s Foreword 9 Acknowledgments 12 Part I Introduction 13 Introduction: Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks: The Making of Cultural Resistance 14 Part II Globalization, Transnationalisms, andth e Politics of Representation in the Borderlands 31 One Transnational Fem inism, Globalization, and the Politics of Representation in Chicana Visual Art 32 Two Markings on the Walls: Writing in Oppositionin Alicia Gasp ar de Alba’s Desert Blood 54 Three Global Patagonia: Belén Gach e’s Nomadic Writings 85 Four Family Imaginaries and Postmemory in Chil ean Narrative: Andrea Jeftanovic’s Escenariode guerra and Lina Meruane’s Cercada 106 Five Iraqi Women, Jewish Men, and Global Noisesin Two T exts by Ya‛qub Balbul 126 Part III Transnational Decentering of Human/Women’s Rights 146 Six Race, Gender, and Human Rights: A Glimpse intothe Transnational F eminist Organization ofAfro- Brazilian Women 147 Seven Shaping Political Discourse on Women’s Rights:The Role of Women in the Amendment of Gender Policies in Turkey 171 Eight Trouble in the Global Village: A Snap shot of LGBTCommunity in Eastern Europe 185 Part IV Pedagogies of Crossing and Dissent 207 Nine The Vagina Monologues: Theoretical, Geopolitical,and Pedagogical Concerns 208 Ten The Long Table Model: Bringing Transnational Feminist Debates to a Small Midwestern University 225 Notes on Contributors 244 Index 247 Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Transnational Feminism, Globalization, and the Politics of Representation in Chicana Visual Art....Pages 23-44 Markings on the Walls: Writing in Opposition in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood....Pages 45-75 Global Patagonia: Belén Gache’s Nomadic Writings....Pages 77-97 Family Imaginaries and Postmemory in Chilean Narrative: Andrea Jeftanovic’s Escenario de guerra and Lina Meruane’s Cercada....Pages 99-118 Iraqi Women, Jewish Men, and Global Noises in Two Texts by Ya’qub Balbul....Pages 119-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Race, Gender, and Human Rights: A Glimpse into the Transnational Feminist Organization of Afro-Brazilian Women....Pages 141-164 Shaping Political Discourse on Women’s Rights: The Role of Women in the Amendment of Gender Policies in Turkey....Pages 165-178 Trouble in the Global Village: A Snapshot of LGBT Community in Eastern Europe....Pages 179-200 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 The Vagina Monologues: Theoretical, Geopolitical, and Pedagogical Concerns ....Pages 203-219 The Long Table Model: Bringing Transnational Feminist Debates to a Small Midwestern University....Pages 221-239 Back Matter....Pages 241-251 This book investigates the implications of transnational feminist methodologies at multiple levels: collective actions, theory, pedagogy, discursive, and visual productions. It addresses a substantial gap in the field of transnational feminisms; namely, the absence of a voice that links social and theoretical outcomes to the politics of representation in literature, visual art, discourses of rights and citizenships, and pedagogy