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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-101783600128
ISBN-139781783600120
eBay Product ID (ePID)203411242
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Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameChanging Narratives of Sexuality : Contestations, Compliance and Womens Empowerment
SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science
AuthorSusie Jolly
SeriesFeminisms and Development Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.1 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.4 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2014-453156
Reviews"This is a refreshingly authentic collection, by and about inspiring women, from diverse contexts and cultures of the world. Accounts of sexualities, political repressions and women's agencies are woven together to provoke, fascinate, challenge and stimulate. This is a most welcome, timely and valuable publication, which deserves a wide readership - not least among policy makers. Kudos to all its contributors." -- Alice Welbourn, Salamander Trust "Uncovering both the differences and the continuities in discourses around women's sexualities, emerging from varied geographical perspectives, these insightful accounts are an excellent critical contribution to research into gender and sexualities in the global South." -- Helen Scanlon, University of Cape Town "What a rich tapestry of feminist analyses of sexuality and gender! This genuinely transnational collection is for those seeking to explore the changing configurations of power and heteronormativity, but also the possibilities of women's agency and action from the angle of the Global South. A wonderful resource for scholars, activists, and students." -- Jyoti Puri, Simmons College "This is an exciting book that is actively seeking to change narratives of women's embodied sexual lives. While candidly revealing the contradictions and tensions it also celebrates women's ability to transcend boundaries and normative prescriptions of sexualities in diverse places." -- Wendy Harcourt, Erasmus University, 'This is an exciting book that is actively seeking to change narratives of women's embodied sexual lives. While candidly revealing the contradictions and tensions it also celebrates women's ability to transcend boundaries and normative prescriptions of sexualities in diverse places.'Wendy Harcourt, Erasmus University'This is a refreshingly authentic collection, by and about inspiring women, from diverse contexts and cultures of the world. Accounts of sexualities, political repressions and women's agencies are woven together to provoke, fascinate, challenge and stimulate. This is a most welcome, timely and valuable publication, which deserves a wide readership - not least among policy makers. Kudos to all its contributors.'Alice Welbourn, Salamander Trust'What a rich tapestry of feminist analyses of sexuality and gender! This genuinely transnational collection is for those seeking to explore the changing configurations of power and heteronormativity, but also the possibilities of women's agency and action from the angle of the Global South. A wonderful resource for scholars, activists, and students.'Jyoti Puri, Simmons College'Uncovering both the differences and the continuities in discourses around women's sexualities, emerging from varied geographical perspectives, these insightful accounts are an excellent critical contribution to research into gender and sexualities in the global South.'Helen Scanlon, University of Cape Town, What a rich tapestry of feminist analyses of sexuality and gender! This genuinely transnational collection is for those seeking to explore the changing configurations of power and heteronormativity, but also the possibilities of women's agency and action from the angle of the Global South. A wonderful resource for scholars, activists, and students., This is an exciting book that is actively seeking to change narratives of women's embodied sexual lives. While candidly revealing the contradictions and tensions it also celebrates women's ability to transcend boundaries and normative prescriptions of sexualities in diverse places., 'This is an exciting book that is actively seeking to change narratives of women's embodied sexual lives. While candidly revealing the contradictions and tensions it also celebrates women's ability to transcend boundaries and normative prescriptions of sexualities in diverse places.'Dr Wendy Harcourt, Associate Professor of Critical Development and Feminist Studies, ISS, Erasmus University'This is a refreshingly authentic collection, by and about inspiring women, from diverse contexts and cultures of the world. Accounts of sexualities, political repressions and women's agencies are woven together to provoke, fascinate, challenge and stimulate. This is a most welcome, timely and valuable publication, which deserves a wide readership - not least among policy makers. Kudos to all its contributors.'Dr Alice Welbourn, Founding Director of the Salamander Trust'What a rich tapestry of feminist analyses of sexuality and gender! This genuinely transnational collection is for those seeking to explore the changing configurations of power and heteronormativity, but also the possibilities of women's agency and action from the angle of the Global South. A wonderful resource for scholars, activists, and students.'Jyoti Puri, Professor of Sociology, Simmons College, Boston'Uncovering both the differences and the continuities in discourses around women's sexualities, emerging from varied geographical perspectives, these insightful accounts are an excellent critical contribution to research into gender and sexualities in the global South.'Dr Helen Scanlon, Head of Gender Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Uncovering both the differences and the continuities in discourses around women's sexualities, emerging from varied geographical perspectives, these insightful accounts are an excellent critical contribution to research into gender and sexualities in the global South., This is a refreshingly authentic collection, by and about inspiring women, from diverse contexts and cultures of the world. Accounts of sexualities, political repressions and women's agencies are woven together to provoke, fascinate, challenge and stimulate. This is a most welcome, timely and valuable publication, which deserves a wide readership - not least among policy makers. Kudos to all its contributors.
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Changing Narratives of Sexuality - Charmaine Pereira Part I: Negotiating Desire? 1. Rewriting Desire as Empowerment in the Women and Memory Forum's Storytelling Project - Mona I. Ali 2. Islam in Urban Bangladesh: Changing Worldviews and Reconfigured Sexuality - Samia Huq 3. Loving and Fearing: Township Girls' Agency amidst Sexual Risk - Deevia Bhana Part II: Body Politics and Sexualities 4. Reporting Anita: Nudity in Nigerian Newspapers - Charmaine Pereira and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf 5.Ageing Women and the Culture of Eternal Youth: Personal and Theoretical Reflections from a Feminist over Sixty in Brazil - Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg 6. Unmarried in Palestine: Embodiment and (Dis)Empowerment in the Lives of Single Palestinian Women - Penny Johnson Part III: Changing Institutions? 7. Narratives of Egyptian Marriages - Mulki Al-Sharmani 8. Gender and Sexuality Activism in Beijing: Negotiating International Influences and National and Local Processes - Susie Jolly
SynopsisChanging Narratives of Sexuality examines the tensions and contradictions in constructions of gender, sexuality and women's empowerment in the various narrations of sexuality told by and about women. From storytelling to women's engagement with state institutions, stories of unmarried women and ageing women, a sex scandal and narrations of religious influence on women's subjectivities and sexualities, this impressive collection explores sexuality in a wide range of national contexts in the global South. The authors analyse what scope exists for women to subvert repressive norms and conceptions of heterosexuality, interweaving rich, contextual detail with theoretical concerns.
LC Classification NumberHQ1870.9.C45 2014
