ENGENDERING TRANSNATIONAL TRANSGRESSIONS
Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces.
The book begins by highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography. It then divides into two parts, Global Transgressions: Networking for Justice and Peace, considers political and social violence as well as struggles for relief, redemption, and change by transnational networks of women. Chapters are archivally grounded and take a critical approach that underscores the local in the global and the significance of intersectional factors within the intimate. They bring into conversation literatures too often separated: history of feminisms and anti-war, anti-imperial/anti-fascist, and related movements, on the one hand, and studies of gender crossings, marriage reconstitution, and affect and subjectivities, on the other. In so doing, the book encourages the reader to rethink standard interpretations of rights, equality, and recognition.
This is the ideal volume for students and scholars of Womens and Gender History and Womens and Gender Studies, as well as International, Transnational, and Global History, History of Social Movements, and related specialized topics.
Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, History, Black Studies, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Sandra Trudgen Dawson is Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, USA.
Barbara Molony is Professor of Japanese History at Santa Clara University, USA, and specializes in womens rights, transnational feminisms, and East Asian gender constructions.
Womens and Gender History
Edited by June Purvis
The Womens Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland
A Regional Survey
Elizabeth Crawford
Womens Activism
Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present
Edited by Francisca de Haan, Margaret Allen, June Purvis and Krassimira Daskalova
Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500
Edited by Glenda Sluga and Carolyn James
Women in Transnational History
Connecting the Local and the Global
Edited by Clare Midgley, Alison Twells and Julie Carlier
Christabel Pankhurst
A Biography
June Purvis
Engendering Transnational Transgressions
From the Intimate to the Global
Edited by Eileen Boris, Sandra Trudgen Dawson, and Barbara Molony
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ENGENDERING TRANSNATIONAL TRANSGRESSIONS
From the Intimate to the Global
Edited by Eileen Boris, Sandra Trudgen Dawson, and Barbara Molony
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CONTENTS
Eileen Boris, Sandra Trudgen Dawson, and Barbara Molony
Cndida Martnez Lpez
PART I
Intimate transgressions: marriage and sexuality
Soffa Auur Birgisdttir
Renata Ingbrant
Margaret Allen
Marian Quartly
Laura Rademaker
Karen Hughes
Chiharu Chujo and Nobuyo Aizawa
PART II
Global transgressions: networking for justice and peace
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard
Nova Robinson
Caroline Waldron
Katherine M. Marino
Giulia Cioci
Lara Track
Julie A. Gallagher
Mayuko Itoh and Vera Mackie
Guide
Nobuyo Aizawa is Associate Professor at the Center for General Education, Tokyo Keizai University in Japan. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Kyoto University for her dissertation about Michel Foucaults philosophical methodology. Her current research interest is the comparative history of the feminist movements in Japan and France.
Margaret Allen is Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, University of Adelaide, a member of the Fay Gale Centre, and researches transnational, postcolonial, and gendered histories with a focus upon IndiaAustralia relationships. A recent publication is I am a British subject: Indians in Australia claim rights, 18801940, History Australia, 15 (3) 2018.
Soffa Auur Birgisdttir is Associate Research Professor at the Hornafjrur rural research center, University of Iceland, located in South-East Iceland. She has authored books and scholarly articles on Icelandic literature and history for over 30 years. She is now working on a book about the life of Gurn Sveinbjarnardttir and her five sisters.
Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, History, Black Studies, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was President of International Federation for Research in Womens History, 20152020. Her latest book is Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 19192019 (2019). She is working on migrant domestic workers and the contours of free labor.
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard is Full Professor of British history at Universit de Paris, France, in the British Studies School. Her research spans British womens emancipation history, the first female British internationalism, and women in international exhibitions. Her new project is about the writing of the self and British masculinities before World War I.
Chiharu Chujo is Lecturer at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO). Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on politically committed Japanese female musicians and gender issues from 1970s to 2010s. Her current research continues to examine gender issues in the Japanese music industry, stretching across alternative scenes such as punk and rap.
