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2023; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 49; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/727203

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Gender Politics and Representation

Previous article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreRafael de la Dehesa is associate professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research interests include sexual and reproductive politics in Latin America, globalization and the changing role of social movements, transnational networks, and the state in the region. His publications include Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010) and Sexuality and Politics: Regional Dialogues from the Global South, coedited with Ahonaa Roy (New York: Routledge, 2021).Jerker Edström has been a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies since 2006 and leads the research program Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice. An interdisciplinary development social scientist, he primarily focuses on gender inequality, men and masculinities, gendered violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. He has a longer history of working in HIV prevention, children affected by HIV/AIDS, participatory methods, NGO/CSO support, and international health. Throughout his more than thirty-five-year career in international development, he has worked in more than thirty countries and has over fifteen years of engagement in postgraduate teaching and research, as well as experience working in nine development organizations.Breanne Fahs is professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University. She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored six books: Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women’s Erotic Lives (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2011); Valerie Solanas: A Life of Scum (or Why She Shot Andy Warhol and Other Chit Chat) (New York: Feminist Press, 2014); Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance (Albany, NY: SUNY Press); Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018); Women, Sex, and Madness: Notes from the Edge (New York: Routledge, 2020); and, most recently, Unshaved: Resistance and Revolution in Women’s Body Hair Politics (Seattle: University of Washington Press). She is the founder and director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice.Kaiama L. Glover is professor of African American studies and French at Yale University. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021) and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010), among other publications, and the prizewinning translator of several works of Haitian prose fiction and francophone nonfiction. Her scholarly and translation work has been supported by fellowships at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, the New York Public Library Cullman Center, the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and is the cohost of the Writing Home: American Voices from the Caribbean podcast.Shelly Grabe is professor in social psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Grabe couples her interest in structural inequities, gender, and globalization with her academic training to work in partnership with grassroots organizations in Nicaragua, Perú, and Tanzania that center the activism of women working on human rights. Grabe identifies as a scholar-activist and is committed to exploring how the study of gendered social structures can be practically relevant and can foster social change. In the classroom, Grabe teaches psychologies of justice and resistance that privilege authors from underrepresented backgrounds or identities.Alan Greig, PhD, has more than twenty-five years of experience working on issues of masculinity, violence, and oppression in countries of the global South and North. Through research and technical support, he addresses the connections between gender injustice and other forms of oppression, interpersonal and institutional violence, as well as personal and social change. In recent years, his work has focused on issues of masculinities in relation to the rise of the far Right, militarism and conflict, and framings of and responses to violent extremism. As a cofounder of the New York–based Challenging Male Supremacy project, he is committed to a vision of social justice with gender justice at its heart.Annie Hikido is assistant professor of sociology at Colby College. She is interested in how the intersections of race, class, gender, and nation co-constitute urban development and globalization. Her first book project is an ethnography that examines how Black South African women transform perceptions of place through tourism. Her scholarship appears in Qualitative Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Race, Ethnicity, and Education. She also currently sits on the editorial board for Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.Leland Jasperse is a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. Leland’s work broadly investigates how literary form and content mediate historical transformations of normative embodiment. His dissertation, “Insignificant Others: The Literary Politics of Celibacy, 1880–1930,” examines how literary archetypes of celibacy, and the libidinal indifference they embodied, both fueled and resisted the ramping up of sexual biopolitics at the turn of the twentieth century.Simone Leigh is an artist who has had one-person museum exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, among others. Her work was included in the 2012 and 2019 biennial exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and she was the first artist to be commissioned for the High Line Plinth. In 2022, Leigh represented the United States at the fifty-ninth Venice Biennale with her exhibition, “Simone Leigh: Sovereignty.” Her work was also included in the Biennale’s central exhibition, “The Milk of Dreams,” for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Participant. In spring 2023, her survey exhibition opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; it will subsequently travel to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and California African American Museum, Los Angeles.Tatiana Lionço has a PhD in psychology from the University of Brasilia, where she is currently a professor in the Faculty of Communications. Her research interests include religious fundamentalism in Brazilian politics, the protection of LGBT communities in universities, bioethics, and processes of subjectivization related to gender and sexuality. Her publications include Contra a má-fé: Conjurações de uma acadêmica de ação direta (Against bad faith: Conspiracies of a direct-action academic) and her coedited Laicidade e ensino religioso no Brasil (Secularism and religious instruction in Brazil).Manijeh Moradian is assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States, was published by Duke University Press in December 2022. She has published widely, including in American Quarterly, the Journal of Asian American Studies, the Scholar and Feminist Online, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and sits on the editorial board of the Jadaliyya.com Iran page.Olga Sasunkevich is associate professor in gender studies and a scientific coordinator of the research school The Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interests include gender politics, feminist and LGBTI+ activism, migration, and ethnicity in Eastern Europe. Among her recent publications are Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia, and Turkey: Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance, coauthored with Selin Çağatay and Mia Liinason (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and “Unsettling the Political: Conceptualizing the Political in Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, the Scandinavian Countries, and Turkey,” coauthored with Hülya Arik, Selin Çağatay, and Mia Liinason, prepublished online in International Feminist Journal of Politics, November 1, 2022.Chloe Skinner, PhD, is a research fellow in the Power and Popular Politics Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies, specializing in feminist and queer politics; backlash, coloniality, and violence; resistance and embodiment. Drawing on ethnographic observations as an activist in colonized Palestine, Chloe’s monograph “Occupier and Occupied: Israel, Palestine, and Masculinities across the Divide” is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in their Middle East Studies series. Her previous work has been published in Men and Masculinities and the Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change; she has an article under review for the International Feminist Journal of Politics.Abigail J. Stewart is Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include political activism and personality change in the context of experience and social history. In addition to directing the Global Feminisms Project since 2002, she has engaged in long-standing efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education, including as director of Women’s Studies, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the ADVANCE Program at the University of Michigan. Recent books include An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence, with Virginia Valian (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018) and Gender, Considered: Feminist Reflections across the US Social Sciences, with Sarah Fenstermaker (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).Emily Sutton is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She received an MA in English from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her dissertation, “Do Tell: The Explicit in Queer and Feminist Fiction,” considers the aesthetic and theoretical stakes of explicit representations of sexuality and sexual politics in contemporary fiction. She has a particular interest in the historical afterlife of the women’s and gay liberation movements of the sixties and seventies.Ophelia Vedder is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. She is a political theorist working on feminist theory, liberalism, the nature of gender, and the relationship between gender and work. Her dissertation explores the idea of gender abolition, investigating whether a future without gender offers an appealing normative vision of gender justice.Wang Zheng is professor emerita of women’s studies and history at the University of Michigan. A historian of modern China, Wang’s research focus is the history of Chinese feminism. As a long-term academic activist promoting gender studies in China, she has authored two books and coedited nine volumes on feminism and gender studies in Chinese while leading university faculty and graduate training programs on gender studies in China. She is the author of Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1964 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017) and Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 49, Number 2Winter 2024 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/727203 © 2023 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.