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South Asian Feminisms And Youth Activism: Focus On India And Pakistan, Nilanjana Paul, Namita Goswami, Sailaja Nandigama, Gowri Parameswaran, Fawzia Afzal-Khan
South Asian Feminisms And Youth Activism: Focus On India And Pakistan, Nilanjana Paul, Namita Goswami, Sailaja Nandigama, Gowri Parameswaran, Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
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Editorial, Cheryl Sterling
Editorial, Cheryl Sterling
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
In thinking about this volume, questions that come to light are: how does transnationalism redefine aspects of feminist engagement, cultural forms, political causes, (hetero)patriarchal discourses and issues of sexuality and sexual difference? Conceptually, theoretically, and pragmatically, what is the potentiality and trajectory of the literary voices and creativity of African and African Diasporic women writers and artists in their trans-portation, transformation, incorporation, and dissemination as subjects within this movement, who authorize its formative constructs, indexical lens, and its range of permutations? Following the logic of such inquiries, transnationalism trajectory alongside postmodernity constitutes an important underlying rubric of the engagement with …
Deconstructing The Ivorian Vestimentary Traditions: New Fashion, Contemporary Beauty And New Identity In Marguerite Abouet And Clément Oubrerie’S Aya De Yopougon, Richard Oko Ajah, Letitia Egege
Deconstructing The Ivorian Vestimentary Traditions: New Fashion, Contemporary Beauty And New Identity In Marguerite Abouet And Clément Oubrerie’S Aya De Yopougon, Richard Oko Ajah, Letitia Egege
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This paper adopts an eclectic framework of semiotic, postmodern and postcolonial theories to interpret the representations of dressing as an aesthetic activity in Aya de Yopougon 1-3 and to investigate how Yopougon dwellers use their fashion sense to establish both a group identity and a form of everyday resistance. Characters’ bodies are remade, through dressing, to contain emotive qualities and to play symbolic functions with their everyday choice of dress. Their sartorial obsession is supported by psychic inferiority and pop culture; all characters engage in “disciplinary practices” for the clothing culture of their bodies that are ornamented surfaces for display.
Gendered Ecologies And Black Feminist Futures In Ibi Zoboi’S “The Farming Of Gods,” Wanuri Kahiu’S Pumzi, And Wangechi Mutu’S The End Of Eating Everything, Amanda Renee Rico
Gendered Ecologies And Black Feminist Futures In Ibi Zoboi’S “The Farming Of Gods,” Wanuri Kahiu’S Pumzi, And Wangechi Mutu’S The End Of Eating Everything, Amanda Renee Rico
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This paper addresses how the works of three female authors and artists from various parts of Africa and the Diaspora — Pumzi by Wanuri Kahiu, The End of eating Everything by Wangechi Mutu, and “The Farming of the Gods” by Ibi Zoboi — imagine a black feminist future through ecological imagery. My argument is twofold: first, I take my cue from Mutu’s assertion that imaginative forms of world-building must connect systemic corruption to consumptive practices. Second, I claim such Afrofuturist works use geographical spaces marked by ecological abuse (poisonous spores, pustules, desert landscapes), displacement (discarded objects) and violence (human limbs) …
Sissy, Sissy Pierce
Sissy, Sissy Pierce
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
I’ve been incarcerated for 16 years. I will be 70 years old in August of 2018. I have been here at the Wyoming Women’s Center for the last nine years, and the seven years before that were spent out-of-state in private prisons. On December 28 of 1999, I shot my husband and, I was told, killed him instantly. It didn’t mean that I didn’t value human life or that I didn’t care about him. I did. I had never been in trouble with the law in my life. I was a child bride with four children by the time I …
Captive Gender: Trans Embodiment And The Prison Industrial Complex, Edited By Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith, Ak Press, 2015, Jess White
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Captive Gender: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith, AK Press, 2015
The Meaning For Me, Julia Dohan
The Meaning For Me, Julia Dohan
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Over speaking with and hearing the stories of fourteen women housed at the Wyoming Women’s Center, I came to the conclusion that too many people, myself included, do not really understand what prison is like, and we all should. Those in America that have not been convicted of a crime may feel as though the “criminals” deserve to be in prison and the prison environment is fitting for the punishment. I used to be one of those people.
Exposing The Threads: A Critical Interrogation Of The Policies, Practices And (Non-) Performativity Of Diversity In The City Of Toronto, Shana Almeida
Exposing The Threads: A Critical Interrogation Of The Policies, Practices And (Non-) Performativity Of Diversity In The City Of Toronto, Shana Almeida
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This paper explores “diversity” as a discourse, and thus as a mechanism of power. Specifically, this paper invites a critical interrogation into the racial logics of diversity and how political power of government and its policies have been constructed through race, which in turn binds the racialized body against the changing landscape of the City.
How Not To Do Things With Words, Sara Ahmed
How Not To Do Things With Words, Sara Ahmed
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
A commitment is often understood as a performative: it is not describing or denoting something; a commitment “commits.” But what seemed to be the case was that commitments were makeable because they were not doable: it seems you can make a commitment because commitments do not commit institutions to a course of action. Commitments might even become a way of not doing something by appearing to do something. Understanding the role or function of institutional commitments was to understand how institutions do not do things with words, or how institutions use words as a way of not doing things. I …
“What Difference Does Difference Make?”: Diversity, Intersectionality And Transnational Feminist Politics, Nikita Dhawan, Maria Do Mar Castro Varela
“What Difference Does Difference Make?”: Diversity, Intersectionality And Transnational Feminist Politics, Nikita Dhawan, Maria Do Mar Castro Varela
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This paper engages with the formative concepts of diversity and intersectionality, inquiring how far they are employed as tools for achieving (gender) justice that open up spaces for marginalized constituencies, including racial and religious minorities, colonial subjects, queers, and women and how they unwittingly reify the hegemony of an entitled majority by failing to realize their emancipatory possibilities.
Pitfalls Of Diversity Management, Mechthild Nagel
Pitfalls Of Diversity Management, Mechthild Nagel
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
A brief historical overview of the ideological shift from multicultural education towards diversity education suggests that the “struggle” paradigm of the Civil Rights Movement has been abandoned in favor of celebrating differences. The paper discusses conflict-laden approaches of managing diverse voices, identities, and discourses within the U.S. academy.
Contextualizing Diversity’S (Non-)Performativity, Eike Marten
Contextualizing Diversity’S (Non-)Performativity, Eike Marten
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
The article contextualizes the traveled skeptical evaluation of diversity as a ‘non-performative’ (Ahmed) in German Gender Studies and Diversity Studies debates. The text analyses and highlights performative effects of a ‘narrative of overcoming’ according to which a multidimensional and non-hierarchic notion of diversity supersedes and replaces the critical concepts of gender and difference.
Editorial, Franziska Dubgen
Editorial, Franziska Dubgen
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Epistemic injustice gives a name to experiences that we struggle to articulate due to the injuries of hegemonic speech. This normative grammar seeks to enable social philosophers and activists alike to name experiences of injustice that have not been previously addressed as such. This includes experiences that we cannot make sense of because the society we live in does not provide a vocabulary to make them intelligible or because we are not entitled to give them a name due to our specific identity position, which supposedly disables us from judging matters objectively. By looking at epistemic injustice in practice, this …
Epistemic Injustice And Powerlessness In The Context Of Global Justice: An Argument For "Thick" And "Small" Knowledge, Gottfried Schweiger
Epistemic Injustice And Powerlessness In The Context Of Global Justice: An Argument For "Thick" And "Small" Knowledge, Gottfried Schweiger
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
In this paper, I present an analysis of the “windows into reality” that are used in theories of global justice with a focus on issues of epistemic injustice and the powerlessness of the global poor. I argue that we should aim for a better understanding of global poverty through acknowledging people living in poverty as epistemic subjects. To achieve this, we need to deepen and broaden the knowledge base of theories of global justice and approach the subject through methodologies of “thinking small” and “thick descriptions”, which are ways to give people living in poverty sufficient room to express themselves …
Emerging Procurement Laws And Women Empowerment: Assessing The Costs And Benefits Of Privatization Of The Telecommunications Sector In Kenya, Henry Amadi
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Drawing mainly from secondary data, this study seeks to find out how far Kenyan women have benefited from the restructuring of Kenya’s telecommunications sector since the onset of privatization. Kenyan women who benefit from privatization opportunities are largely those that are perceived to be “politically correct”.
Assessing Public Sector Reform Impacts On Domestic Violence Service Delivery, Beth M. Rauhaus
Assessing Public Sector Reform Impacts On Domestic Violence Service Delivery, Beth M. Rauhaus
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This research applies the theoretical notions of representative bureaucracy and the feminization of poverty to cases of domestic violence involving women to explore how states may adequately address their needs. It further explores how partnerships with non-governmental organizations may meet the needs of vulnerable populations.
Street Sex Workers’ Discourse: Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice By Jill Mccracken, Routledge, 2013, Elizabeth C. Britt
Street Sex Workers’ Discourse: Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice By Jill Mccracken, Routledge, 2013, Elizabeth C. Britt
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Street Sex Workers’ Discourse: Realizing Material Change through Agential Choice by Jill McCracken, Routledge, 2013
(Out)Bidding Women: Public Procurement Reform Diffusion And Gender Equality In Africa, S.N. Nyeck
(Out)Bidding Women: Public Procurement Reform Diffusion And Gender Equality In Africa, S.N. Nyeck
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Are African states bidding for or against gender equality in government outsourcing schemes for the procurement of public works, goods and services? Global neoliberal public procurement reform has mainly been diffused in Africa through pressure from international institutions and stronger states. Gender equality has been footnoted in policy reform.
Research Associating Gender And Government Privatization: Lessons From International Literature, Lauren Bock Mullins, Karina Moreno Saldivar
Research Associating Gender And Government Privatization: Lessons From International Literature, Lauren Bock Mullins, Karina Moreno Saldivar
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This study reviews several studies that have examined the association between government privatization and outsourcing and women. The reviewed studies shed light on the examined association in Italy, India and the United States. It argues that governments have fewer incentives to regain control once the responsibilities associated with protecting women’s interests are privatized.
Male Sex Work And Society By Victor Minichiello & John Scott, Harrington Press, 2014, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette
Male Sex Work And Society By Victor Minichiello & John Scott, Harrington Press, 2014, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Male Sex Work and Society by Victor Minichiello & John Scott, Harrington Press, 2014
Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession And Its Provocation Of The Modern By Kalpana Ram, University Of Hawaii Press, 2013, Antoinette Denapoli
Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession And Its Provocation Of The Modern By Kalpana Ram, University Of Hawaii Press, 2013, Antoinette Denapoli
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern by Kalpana Ram, University of Hawaii Press, 2013
The Legal Framework Of Contracting: Gender Equality, The Provision Of Services, And European Public Procurement Law, E.K. Sarter
The Legal Framework Of Contracting: Gender Equality, The Provision Of Services, And European Public Procurement Law, E.K. Sarter
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
The article examines the legal framework of public contracting in the EU. It argues that while European public procurement law explicitly allows for measures to foster gender equality be taken into account in public tendering, European legislation and jurisdiction also impose limits to the range of these measures.
Race, Immigration Reform, And Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Reframing The Obama Presidency, Seth N. Asumah
Race, Immigration Reform, And Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Reframing The Obama Presidency, Seth N. Asumah
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
In this article, I argue that the macroscopic nature and complexity of race, hegemonic masculinity, and immigration issues in the United States put President Obama in a double bind for any attempt to secure reforms—situations which produce limited options and exposure to penalties in reaching solutions.
Race-Based Epistemologies: The Role Of Race And Dominance In Knowledge Production, Shana Almeida
Race-Based Epistemologies: The Role Of Race And Dominance In Knowledge Production, Shana Almeida
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Mainstream academia in the West reinscribes racial thinking by strategically reducing the theoretical contributions of racialized and Indigenous scholars to “stories.” In my analysis, I describe how this reduction reproduces the ideological, discursive and material racism in knowledge production by centering the white western scholar as the “true” knower.
The Intricacies Of Adopting International “Norms” From The Bottom Up, Malia L. Womack Uc Berkeley
The Intricacies Of Adopting International “Norms” From The Bottom Up, Malia L. Womack Uc Berkeley
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This manuscript examines the socio-political climate that led San Francisco to adopt an ordinance based on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), despite the United States’ failure to ratify the treaty. The publication also investigates the successes and shortcomings of the ordinance’s materialization.
Gender Equality In Primary Schools In Sub-Saharan Africa: Review And Analysis, Robert Osadan, Irish A. Burrage
Gender Equality In Primary Schools In Sub-Saharan Africa: Review And Analysis, Robert Osadan, Irish A. Burrage
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Developing countries like those in Africa’s Sub-Saharan region struggle with gender inequality issues in primary schools, an impediment that keeps these countries from progressing economically as well as socially. Despite the struggle, international awareness coupled with continuous initiatives of various international groups like United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, UNESCO’s Education for All, plus other government organizations, find concrete ways to permanently and effectively address gender disparity in education.
The Profession Feminism Left Behind: Heterosexism In Schooling And The Teaching Profession, Cynthia J. Benton
The Profession Feminism Left Behind: Heterosexism In Schooling And The Teaching Profession, Cynthia J. Benton
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
The interrelationship of a number of factors-‐teacher dispositions and identity, student socialization, the school environment, and the content of the curriculum-‐are examined in this conceptual study of heterosexism in U. S. schooling. Contemporary curricular and social programs which mitigate against heterosexist assumptions are discussed.
Editorial, Kathryn Coffey
Editorial, Kathryn Coffey
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
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Transformational Learning: Influence Of A Sexism And Heterosexism Course On Student Attitudes And Thought Development, Judy Ouellette
Transformational Learning: Influence Of A Sexism And Heterosexism Course On Student Attitudes And Thought Development, Judy Ouellette
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
The current study investigated whether a course regarding prejudice toward homosexuals and women impacted student attitudes and thought development (compared to a controls). Students completed measures of social dominance, attitudes toward homosexuals and obese persons, and modern sexism. Compared to controls the experimental group had less negative attitudes post course.
Review Essay Of Books On Women In Prison, Mechthild Nagel
Review Essay Of Books On Women In Prison, Mechthild Nagel
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
As law professor Michelle Alexander has eloquently stated in her acclaimed book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness (2010), we live in times that vastly over incarcerate people of color, and as the term Jim Crow suggests, particularly people of African descent. Scholars and activists have taken note and in the following some recent work on historical and contemporary perspectives of people incarcerated in women’s prisons will be discussed. My review is informed by a penal abolition worldview, which ultimately demands a transformative justice approach worldwide. The texts here under review are limited to …