Gendered Crossings
Gendered Crossings

Author: Allyson M. Poska

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2016-02-15

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0826356443

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Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across northern Spain to volunteer for the project and follows them across the Atlantic to Montevideo. However, before the last ships reached the Americas, harsh weather, disease, and the prospect of mutiny on the Patagonian coast forced the Crown to abandon the project. Eventually, the peasant colonists were resettled in towns outside of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where they raised families, bought slaves, and gradually integrated into colonial society. Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants’ gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

Gendered Crossings
Gendered Crossings

Author: Allyson M. Poska

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0826356435

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Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants' gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

Cross-Gendered Literary Voices
Cross-Gendered Literary Voices

Author: R. Kim

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-05-21

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 113702075X

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This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts.

Crossing Gender Boundaries
Crossing Gender Boundaries

Author: Andrew Reilly

Publisher: Intellect (UK)

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781789381535

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This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments--how dress creates, disrupts, and transcends gender--the essays investigate gender issues through the lens of fashion. Crossing Gender Boundaries first examines how clothing has been, and continues to be, used to create and maintain the binary gender division that has come to permeate Western and westernized cultures. Next, it explores how dress can be used to contest and subvert binary gender expectations, before a final section that considers the meaning of gender and how dress can transcend it, focusing on unisex and genderless clothing. The essays consider how fashion can both constrict and free gender expression, explore the ways dress and gender are products of one other, and illuminate the construction of gender through social norms. Readers will find that through analysis of the relationship between gender and fashion, they gain a better understanding of the world around them.

Migrant Women
Migrant Women

Author: Gina Buijs

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1040288278

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Population movements on a large scale have been a prominent feature of modern society, but there have been as yet few attempts to look beneath the surface of mass movements of people. There is a particularly urgent need to disentangle the specific experience of women who are critically involved in the process of adaptation to new worlds and ways of life. Most of the women studied in this volume hoped to retain their original culture and lifestyle at least to some extent but found that the exigencies of being migrants and refugees forced them to examine their preconceptions and to adopt roles, both social and economic, which they would have rejected at home. This remaking of self was often a traumatic experience with serious repercussions on their relationships with their menfolk. On the other hand, for some women, emigration also provided a spur to ambition and progress, a means of achieving a social and economic mobility that they would have been denied at home.

Gendering Border Studies
Gendering Border Studies

Author: Jane Aaron

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2010-06-30

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1783164212

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The study of borders has recently undergone significant transitions, reflecting the transformation of the world political map as well as the changes in the ways boundaries themselves function. In Gendering Border Studies sixteen established scholars from a variety of disciplines examine how the issue of gender and borders has been approached in their field and describe what they expect from future research. This book will be of interest to scholars of border studies, gender studies, social anthropology, international politics, comparative literature, and Welsh studies.

Women Crossing Boundaries
Women Crossing Boundaries

Author: Oliva Espin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1135963843

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First published in 1999. This book looks at the consequences of border crossings and immigration on women and their culture and sexual orientations. Espin demonstrates how deeply sexuality, language and gender affected by this large life change with the aid of 43 biographies of adolescent and adult women.

Human Smuggling and Border Crossings
Human Smuggling and Border Crossings

Author: Gabriella Sanchez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1134483090

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This book fills an important gap in our knowledge of human smugglers and offers fresh empirical data from an area in the US where trafficking is widespread. This book will be useful supplementary reading for a growing number of courses on crime and trafficking, as well as sociology modules in citizenship and migration.

Intimate Migrations
Intimate Migrations

Author: Deborah A. Boehm

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 147988555X

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In her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to live? Almost always, they desire the freedom to "come and go." Yet the barriers preventing such movement are many. Because of rigid U.S. immigration policies, Mexican immigrants often find themselves living long distances from family members and unable to easily cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Transnational Mexicans experience what Boehm calls "intimate migrations," flows that both shape and are structured by gendered and familial actions and interactions, but are always defined by the presence of the U.S. state. By showing how intimate relations direct migration, and by looking at kin and gender relationships through the lens of "illegality," Boehm sheds new light on the study of gender and kinship, as well as understandings of the state and transnational migration.