6 research outputs found
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate
No full textViolence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the present discourse on gender and violence, discovering new ways to address the complexities encountered in academic research on the topic. Through the introduction of a variety of uncommonly discussed geopolitical sites and dynamics, the book redefines the critical picture of gender violence in the age of globalization, adopting diverse methodological approaches and various disciplinary praxes in its investigation of the question of violence against women across the globe. With an international team of contributors comprising both scholars and activists, this volume bridges the gap between academic and activist perspectives on gender violence. As such, it will be of interest to anyone conducting research in the areas of gender and sexuality, human rights, cultural studies, political science, history, postcolonialism and colonialism, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and religion
'The Ethics of Animal-Human Existence: Marie Darrieussecq?s Truismes'
No full textOne of the surprisingly serene passages In Marie Darrieussecq’s debut novel Pig Tales (Fr. Truismes; lit., “truisms;” “sow’s stories”) finds the heroine reclining on a bench in a Parisian park and sharing dreams with birds and bats: This shared space of (interspecies) kindness poses a startling opposition to the callousness, maltreatment, sexual abuse, and butchery that permeate the rest of the novel. Foregrounding the issues of wanton violence and exploitation, Darrieussecq’s politicized, eroticized, and darkly humorous tale of the predicaments of a womanturned-sow caused much commotion among the critics and the wider public alike when it was published in 1996. It re Invigorated the debates about female subjectivation and the competing meanings of femininity, and raised, again and forcefully, the question of the female body as a form of prime currency both in a globalized capitalist market and In totalitarian societies. Pungent and Intense, Pig Tales connected these concerns to the more general problem of human insolence, indifference, and willful exercise of power In an ecologically deteriorating world.1
Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text
No full textHow various mythologies challenge, enable, and inspire women artists and activists across the globe to communicate personal and historical experiences of violence is the central concern of this collection. Beginning with the observation that twentieth- and twenty-first century female writers and artists often use myth to represent their social and artistic struggles, the distinguished international scholars and writers consider mythic fabulations as spaces for contested meanings and resistant readings. The identified resistance of the mythic material to repression-working, as it were, in opposition to another celebrated drive/role of myth, that of containment-makes the use of myth particularly stimulating for twentieth-century and contemporary female artists; and it is an interest in the aesthetic and political consequences of such resistances that animates this book. Exemplifying the diverse types of engagement with myth and femininity, literary criticism, discussions of film and art, artwork, as well as original creative writing, could all be found within the boundaries of this innovative volume. Femininity, myth, and violence are here explored in contexts such as female mythopoiesis in the early twentieth century; the politics of representation in contemporary writing; revision of old myths; and creation of new myths in multicultural female experiences. Keeping the focus on the actual works of art, the editors and contributors offer scholars and teachers an inclusive way to approach literature and the arts that avoids the limits imposed by genre or national and regional boundaries
