... as cultural politics. The way gender and class intersect in an African context continues to be an ongoing critical lever of analysis, despite some recent turns in the study of African gender systems that have evaded class as a critical variable. Copyright © 2015 by Smith College 2015 CAROLE BOYCE DAVIES...

... as a growing affirmation of gender-plural identities across the world. In the academy, however, Transfeminism continues to be sidelined, not making waves beyond the interdisciplinary research areas of Transgender studies and queer studies. The research field of international politics continues to subscribe...

... studies are useful in assessing gender and power dynamics in Onwueme’s play. Since these studies sometimes valorize pre-colonial pasts, I also look at feminist responses to such an idealization, again with Onwueme’s play as a reference point. In accounting for “polygamous postcolonialsm,” which I define...

... fetishization without fully considering how race, gender, class, and technology are co-constituted. Drawing on critical feminist theory, social justice education, and science and technology studies, this essay offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to technology education for girls of color and provides...

... national campaign to end prostitution as a case study to investigate how gender and patriarchy affect the ways social change is operationalized. Interested in the relationship between social and cultural change, following the tradition of feminist historians, this article utilizes the oral histories of two...

... College. All rights reserved. 141 I teach ethnic and gender studies courses concerning Asian women predominantly to white students on the east coast, and have found that most of them find it very difficult to comprehend how both race and gender oppression continue to influence them on a daily basis. Many...

...-Kum Bhavnani, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Inderpal Grewal. I teach ethnic and gender studies courses concerning Asian women predominantly to White students on the east coast, and have found that most of them find it very difficult to comprehend how both race and gender oppression continue...

... in-depth feminist interviews to reveal second-generation Afghan-Canadian women’s gendered negotiations of partner-selection practices and marital ceremonies, including their resistance and conformity to these practices through the mobilization of their hybrid diasporic identities. Overall, the study design...

... brings together intersectionality and whiteness studies frameworks as well as the scripts they generate, models a critical pedagogy that exposes race–gender constitution as a relational dynamic, characterized by racialized discursive struggle. The intentional juxtaposition of incompatible perspectives...

... of these antimilitarism campaigns for the study of transnational feminisms as well as Asian American and Pacific Islander studies. First, the protests of Mink and Native Hawaiian activists against U.S. militarism in the Pacific represented gendered critiques of U.S. empire, although in different ways. Second, Mink’s...

... of patriarchy, and expressions of sexuality that included agency and nonconformity. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 gender hip hop cultural representation hip hop feminism sexuality In the United States we have seen Black feminist scholarship engage hip hop studies in conversations around...

...Yu Shi Abstract Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay area, this study traces the emergence of a Chinese immigrant working-class patriarchy that is enabled by the articulation of “traditional” Chinesefemininity with new or reinvented gendered expectations in immigrant settings. I...

...Sudarat Musikawong Abstract Masculinity and nationalisms in Thailand during the 1970s served to enable gendered violence against activist women. Archival research and fieldwork reveal how feminist epistemologies and methods for studying memory are always gendered. Both conservative and leftist...

...). Gender and feminist analyses of hip-hop are expanding the discourse not only of hip-hop studies but of broader critiques on black sexual politics, masculinity, queer subjectivities, and feminism (Cheney 2005; Collins 2005; Clay 2007). Gwendolyn Pough's (2004) historiography of black women in hip-hop...

...Joanne Barker Abstract Drawing from Native feminist theories and sovereignty studies, this essay examines the 1983 and 1985 amendments and the activism that led to their development and passage as an instance of the co-constitutive relationship of gender and sovereignty. By looking at how...

... transnationalism gender studies When Han, Kang’s The Vegetarian (2015) was announced as the winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, it was a highly significant event in the history of Korean literature. 1 Not only was it the first time a Korean author won the prestigious translation award...

... feminist studies, I offer black hair haptics as an analytic for the racialized and gendered dimensions of quotidian public interpersonal engagement with black hair as an extension of the black body. I argue that black hair is a unique site of analysis for transgressions of socially appropriate...

... and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Kansas. The majority of her poetry is spiritually based and addresses issues of gender, race and identity. Eager to express the accomplishments of underrepresented women, she is writing a novel about juvenile delinquents. Her selection of poems...

... University Press. Berger, Michele, and Silvia Bettez. 2016. "Feminism, Multiracial." In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy A. Naples, Renee C. Hoogland, Maithree Wickramasinghe, and Wai Ching Angela Wong, zoo-2. London: John Wiley & Sons. Berger, Michele...

... people tell stories and make meaning for themselves in the face of negative social ascription. Weston's work also played an important role in opening the door to subsequent generative studies of gender and sexuality. Weston weaves together the narratives that her interview protagonists provided about...