Short description:

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale, and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies. It is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies and gender studies.

Long description:

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies.

This interdisciplinary collection seeks to understand the complex nexus at which gender and the borderlands intersect, modelling radical relationality at epistemological, ontological, and activist levels. Going beyond border studies? frequent site at the U.S.?Mexico Border, this book examines the power relations of borderlands as they play out in, influence, and reflect gender dynamics. Contributors draw on case studies from around the world, and their chapters span diverse fields from anthropology, literature, and history, to political science, religious studies, sociology, and the arts.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies, gender studies, and the wide range of interlocking disciplines that inform and enrich these fields.

Chapters 1, 15 and 20 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

Part One: Introduction to Gender and Borderlands  1. Introduction  2. Approaches to Gender Studies  3. Approaches to Border Studies  Part Two: Intimate Borders  Introduction  4. Border Women, Queer Mestizas, and Nagualas: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands Ontologies  5. Masculinity and Homosociality in Colonial-Carceral Borderlands: Australia, Bermuda and Gibraltar, 1824-75  6. Gender, Mobility, and Borders in Transoceanic Migrations in the Indian Ocean Region: The South Asian Diaspora to Africa 1914-1930  7. Intimate Saharan Borders in Crisis Times: Mixed Marriages and Humanitarian Aid Workers in the Sahara-Sahel  8. The Intimate is International: Reproductive Health Dynamics in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands  9. Intimate Borders of South Asian Queer Diasporas in the UK  Part Three: Cultural and Civic Borders  Introduction  10. Connecting Women across the Mountains: Gendered, Geopolitical and Interspecies Liminality in the Making of Buddhist Communities of the Contemporary Himalayas  11. The Limits of National Legislation in Local and Transnational Spaces: How to Protect Trokosi Girls in Ghana?  12. Gendered Framing of Asylum Reception as ?Borderwork? at the Finnish-Swedish Borderland  13. Intersecting Gender through New Media Art: Visual Inquiry on a Recent Migration Phenomenon in Europe and Beyond  14. Screening Mohawk Stories: Gender and Cinema in Kanien?kehá:ka Territory  15. Alcohol, Temperance, and the Shifting Borders of Gender, 1750-1850  Part Four: Embodied and Violent Borders  Introduction  16. Beyond Physical Borders: Intimate Borders and the Lives of Women in Kashmir  17. The Borders of Abortion and Identity: Moral Shadowboxing on the Island of Ireland, 1920-2018  18. Psychopathic Cultures: Sexual and Lateral Violence in Contemporary Chicana and Métis Women?s Writing  19. The Borders of Femicide and Gender Violence in Guatemala  20. Podcasting and Gender-Based Violence in Canada, the US, and Mexico  21. The Intimacy of Violence: Family Experiences of Bolivian Aymara Women in The Andean Tri-Border  Part Five: Economic Borders  Introduction  22. Gender Difference in the South Pacific Labor Trade: An Examination of Labor Mobility and Shifting Identity in the Australian/Melanesian Context  23. Gender and Labor in the US-Mexico Borderlands  24. Women on the Andean Border of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru  25. Recasting Gender: Precarity, Exchange, and Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Borderlands  26. Gendered Dynamics of Cross-border Trade in West Africa  27. Informal Trade and Gendered Resistance on the Belarus-Lithuania Borderland  Part Six: Changing, Challenging, Resisting  Introduction  28. Relational Ecologies in Contemporary Chicana Border Art  29. Literary Activism, Women's Activism and Social Production in 21st-Century Uganda  30. Black Women and Transnational Resistance  31. Unaccompanied Minors in the Borderlands: Suspicions and Assumptions at the Intersection of Gender and Social Age  32. The Politics of "Dis/appearing": Visibility, Desire, and Violence in a Dance Performance by a North Korean Women's Performing Arts Troupe in South Korea  33. Teaching-inspired Research, Critical Pedagogies, and Educational Resources