Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction
Clara Román-Odio, Marta Sierra

Part II. Globalization, Transnationalisms, and the Politics of Representation in the Borderlands

2. Transnational Feminism, Globalization, and the Politics of Representation in Chicana Visual Art
Clara Román-Odio

3. Markings on the Walls: Writing in Opposition in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood
Irene Mata

4. Global Patagonia: Belén Gache’s Nomadic Writings
Marta Sierra

5. Family Imaginaries and Postmemory in Chilean Narrative: Andrea Jeftanovic’s Escenario de guerra and Lina Meruane’s Cercada
Bernardita Llanos

6. Iraqi Women, Jewish Men, and Global Noises in Two Texts by Ya’qub Balbul
Orit Bashkin

Part III. Transnational Decentering of Human/Women’s Rights

7. Race, Gender, and Human Rights: A Glimpse into the Transnational Feminist Organization of Afro-Brazilian Women
Jessica Franklin

8. Shaping Political Discourse on Women’s Rights: The Role of Women in the Amendment of Gender Policies in Turkey
Gul Aldikacti Marshall

9. Trouble in the Global Village: A Snapshot of LGBT Community in Eastern Europe
Anna Klosowska

Part IV. Pedagogies of Crossing and Dissent

10. The Vagina Monologues: Theoretical, Geopolitical, and Pedagogical Concerns

Kimberly A. Williams

11. The Long Table Model: Bringing Transnational Feminist Debates to a Small Midwestern University
Katy Strzepek, Beatrice Jacobson, Katherine Blair

Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Feminism