...Bending toward Reconciliation Over decades or even centuries, women are subjugated; they somehow come forward; they lead reforms, including for their own rights and their families' well-being. Rwanda was no exception. But the lightning speed with which it moved through those stages makes...

... This chapter explores a series of gender transgressive performances in three Pakistani films. While the narratives of all three films serve to essentially restore the heteronormative patriarchal order, gender-bending performances temporarily invoke and make claims on particular kinds of gendered...

... of whom is nicknamed after a type of fruit. After initially opposing the new policy, the students quickly warm to the new arrangement, and a series of gender-bending and homoerotic entanglements ensue. A cheeky and libidinous meditation on the productive and contradictory nature of binary oppositions...

... Organized around images used throughout this book, “After words ” pieces together an image-based pathway that bends the original in-text images in a slightly different but nevertheless complementary direction. From the reproduction of the cover image through to the final political calculation...

..., Arzáns celebrated a hybrid New World society during the Rich Mountain’s earlier heyday. In this classic tale of cross-dressing and gender-bending, the two young maidens Eustaquia and Ana take on the personae of gallant and virile young men courting adventure on the rough streets of the city. Despite...

... performances in three Pakistani films. While the narratives of all three films serve to essentially restore the heteronormative patriarchal order, gender-bending performances temporarily invoke and make claims on particular kinds of gendered power, refigure norms and practices, and reimagine the limits...

... and industrial decline, Arzáns celebrated a hybrid New World society during the Rich Mountain’s earlier heyday. In this classic tale of cross-dressing and gender-bending, the two young maidens Eustaquia and Ana take on the personae of gallant and virile young men courting adventure on the rough streets...