ABSTRACT
Drawing on border thinking, postcolonial and transnational feminisms, and queer theory, Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands brings an intersectional feminist and queer lens to understandings of borderlands, liminality, and lives lived at the margins of socio-cultural and sexual normativities.
Bringing together new and contemporary interdisciplinary research from across diverse global contexts, this collection explores the lived experiences of what Gloria Anzaldúa might have called ‘threshold people’, people who live among and in-between different worlds. While it is often challenging, difficult, and even dangerous, inhabiting marginal spaces, living at the borders of socio-cultural, religious, sexual, ethnic, or gendered norms can create possibilities for developing unique ways of seeing and understanding the worlds within which we live.
This collection casts a spotlight on the margins, those ‘queer spaces’ in literary, cinematic, and cultural borderlands; postcolonial and transnational feminist perspectives on movement and migration; and critical analyses of liminal lives within and between socio-cultural borders. Each chapter within this unique book brings a critical insight into diverse global human experiences in the 21st Century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|43 pages
Identities in the borderlands
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
Queering spaces and borders
chapter Chapter 3|14 pages
Celebrating one’s natural tendencies
section Section II|31 pages
Travelling through borderlands
chapter Chapter 5|15 pages
(Re)training the Western eye
chapter Chapter 6|14 pages
Bordered imaginations
section Section III|97 pages
Living in the borderlands
chapter Chapter 7|13 pages
Female (ex)-combatants in Colombia
chapter Chapter 8|19 pages
Borderlands of (in)security
chapter Chapter 9|16 pages
Navigating the borderlands
chapter Chapter 10|16 pages
Living on the borders
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Wives as doorways of citizenship
chapter Chapter 12|19 pages
Women queering the margins of male space? Female construction workers as ‘border bodies’ in Bangladesh 1
section Section IV|32 pages
Arriving home