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2021; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 47; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/716675

1545-6943

Crime and Detective Fiction Studies

Previous article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAziza Ahmed is professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. She holds a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a masters of science from the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Ahmed’s most recent publications include “Floating Lungs: Forensic Science in Self-Induced Abortion Prosecutions,” published in volume 100 of the Boston University Law Review (2020): 1111–49, and “The Future of Facts: The Politics of Public Health and Medicine in Abortion Law,” in volume 92 of the Colorado Law Review (2021): 1151–62.Gwen Bergner is associate professor of English at West Virginia University. She is the coeditor, with Zita Nunes, of “The Plantation, the Postplantation, and Afterlives of Slavery,” a special issue of American Literature 91, no. 3 (2019), and the author, most recently, of “Lòt bò dlo and the Spatial Relations of Dyaspora,” forthcoming in Narrating History, Home, and Nation: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022). Her current project addresses sexual assault in the zombie apocalypse.Marta Cabezas is an interdisciplinary researcher in the area of ​​gender studies, specializing in violence, anthropology, and human rights, with research in Latin America and Europe. She has been a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is coeditor, with Ana Martinez, of When the State Is Violent: Narratives of Systemic Violence against Women (Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2021) and, with Cristina Vega, of The Patriarchal Backlash in Europe and the Americas: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the New Right Wing (Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2020).Jessica R. Calvanico is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice in the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University. She completed her PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the Feminist Studies Department, with designated emphasis in visual studies and critical race and ethnic studies. Her work considers how histories of sexuality, race, and class converge to create a carceral system of girlhood by exploring the juvenile justice system in the US South.Lalla Essaydi (b. 1956) broke from the conventions of her upbringing in 1990 as she embarked upon an independent path in her personal and professional life. She began a career as an artist when, as an adult, she moved to France to attend the École des Beaux Arts Summers (1990–92), where she studied painting. She then attended art schools in the United States, earning a bachelor of fine arts from Tufts University (1999) and a master of fine arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University (2003). During the course of these continuing art studies, she began working with photography, her current medium of choice. She is now based in New York and her hometown, Marrakech.Elisabeth Jay Friedman is professor of politics and Latin American studies at the University of San Francisco and coeditor in chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She is the author of Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016) and editor of Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019), published in Spanish as Género, sexualidad e izquierdas latinoamericanas (Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2020). Her research interests include social movements’ intersections with digital media and the impact of new generations and transnational ideas on feminist communities and strategies.Sanna Karhu ([email protected]) is a postdoctoral scholar in gender studies at the University of Helsinki, working in the fields of political philosophy, feminist philosophy, queer and trans theory, as well as ecofeminist theory. They are currently finalizing a monograph on the problem of violence and nonviolence in Judith Butler’s work. Their previous publications include “Judith Butler’s Critique of Violence and the Legacy of Monique Wittig,” Hypatia 31, no. 4 (2016): 827–43. Another project explores the role of the animal in current ecofeminist discussions.Neveser Köker (PhD, University of Michigan) is a feminist political theorist who works at the intersection of political theory, gender and politics, and comparative politics. Her research explores questions of membership and belonging in transnational contexts. She is currently finalizing a book project that develops belonging as a key concept of political thought using travel narratives from the Mediterranean. She is based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.Mona Lena Krook ([email protected]) is professor of political science and chair of the Women and Politics PhD Program at Rutgers University. She has published widely on gender and political representation, particularly on electoral gender quotas and the impact of women in public office. Her most recent book, Violence against Women in Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), explores rising attacks against women in public life around the globe. Since 2015, she has collaborated with the National Democratic Institute on its #NotTheCost campaign. She also created a website at https://www.vawpolitics.org/ to gather resources and foster awareness of violence against women in politics worldwide.Sophie Schrago is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker whose work lies at the intersection of art and social justice movements. She received her PhD in social anthropology from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, with a thesis looking at the workings of religious authority and gender in India. Her film work includes a documentary feature on women’s Shariʿa courts in India (supported by the Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film from the Wenner-Gren Foundation). She has also directed several documentary shorts that explore religion, queerness, music, and social movements. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University (Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality) and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manchester (Anthropology Department).Rovel Sequeira is a doctoral candidate in English and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow, he is finishing his dissertation, “The Nation and Its Deviants: Sexuality, Science, and Fiction in Colonial India (1880–1950),” on the colonial histories of sexual science and literary forms in India. His work is forthcoming in GLQ and Modernism/modernity. Other publications include “Death of a Museum Foretold? On Sexual Display in the Time of AIDS in India,” in Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism, edited by Joshua Adair and Amy Levin (New York: Routledge, 2020, 101–12).Sa’diyya Shaikh is associate professor in the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Cape Town. Her research, animated by a curiosity about relationships between spirituality and politics, is at the intersection of Islamic studies and gender studies, with a special interest in Sufism. She is author of Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), and her coedited volume (with Fatima Seedat), “The Women’s Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World,” is forthcoming with Yale University Press in spring 2022.Chris M. Smith is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her areas of specialization include crime and inequality, feminist criminology, historical research methods, organized crime, social network analysis, sociology of gender, urban sociology, and violence. She is the author of Syndicate Women: Gender and Networks in Chicago Organized Crime (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019), which documents how and why women’s participation in Chicago organized crime decreased during Prohibition. Smith’s current research project (with Sharon Oselin) examines gender and illicit markets in Toronto and Chicago from 1990–2020.Catharine R. Stimpson, one of the pioneers in the study of women and gender, a founder of feminist criticism, is also known for her role as a public intellectual and for her public service, which includes her wide-ranging writing on the humanities, liberal arts, and the university. She is University Professor at New York University and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences there. She was the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 1974–80. The author of a novel, Class Notes (New York: Avon, 1979), and the editor of eight books, she has also published over 150 monographs, essays, stories, and reviews in such places as Transatlantic Review, the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, Critical Inquiry, and boundary 2. A selection of essays on literature, culture, and education, Where the Meanings Are (New York: Routledge), appeared in 1988 and was reissued in 2014. Stimpson’s most recent book, Critical Terms for the Study of Gender (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), coedited with Gilbert Herdt, was named one of the most significant academic titles of 2015 by CHOICE, a magazine of the American Research Library Association. She is on the board of New York Live Arts and is now the vice chair of the board of Scholars at Risk, having served as chair.Leila Whitley is a lecturer in the Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. Her work on sexual harassment in higher education was inspired by her experiences as a graduate student and works to give space to the stories of violence that are so often lost. She also writes on questions of borders, asking how and where they are experienced and how bodies come to be mobilized as sites of borders. Her work has appeared in Borderlands, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, and New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 47, Number 2Winter 2022 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/716675 Views: 722 © 2021 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.