Full Description
Despite decades of activism, resistance, and education, both feminists and gender rebels continue to experience personal, political, institutional, and cultural resistance to rights, recognition, and respect. In the face of these inequalities and disparities, Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse seeks to engage with, and disrupt the long-standing debates, unquestioned conceptual formations, and taboo topics in contemporary feminist studies.
The first half of the book challenges key concepts and theories related to feminist scholarship by advocating new approaches for theorizing interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, critical race theory, trans studies, and genetics. The second half of the book offers feminist critiques or explorations of timely topics such as the 2017 Women's March and Donald Trump's election as well as non-Western perspectives of family and the absence of women's perspectives in healthcare. Contributors comprise of leading scholars and activists from disciplines including gender and sexuality studies, African American studies, communication studies, sociology, political science, and media.
Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse is a compelling examination of some of the most high-profile feminist issues today. It hopes to infuse future and current debates and conversations around feminism and feminist theory with intersectional, imaginative, provocative, and evocative ideas, inspiring bold cross-fertilizations of concepts, principles, and practices.
Contents
1. Introduction: Transgressing Feminist Discourses 2. (Inter)Disciplinary Transgressions: Feminism, Communication, and Critical Interdisciplinarity3. Rethinking Intersectionality as Fractal: Non-Linear, Intricate, and Infinite 4. Race, Dialogue, and Transgressing White Respectability 5. The Singular They and How it Works: A (More or Less) Structuralist Explanation of Transgender's Poststructuralist, Pronominal Revolution 6. Feminist Transgressions: Vulnerability, Bravery, and the Need for a More Imperfect Feminism 7. Trans-Exclusionary Discourse, White Feminist Failures, and the Women's March on Washington, D.C. 8. Hate Politics: Immigration and Affect in Practice 9.Transgressing the Digital Terrain: Humor in Feminist Responses to Trolling 10. Sick Bodies in Healthcare Culture: Health Communication that Disciplines Female Bodies 11. Four Transgressive Acclamations to End Gender Violence 12. The Making of a Hallow Bahu (Indian Daughter-in-Law): Web of Influence on Bahu Disempowerment 13. "I'm Your Person": Television Narrates Female Friendships in the Workplace from Cagney and Lacey to Grey's Anatomy
