I am happy to announce this forthcoming (Aug 2016) special issue of Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies on the topic:  " Gender, Nation and Colonialism:  Twenty first century connections" (Guest Editor:  Raka Shome)

It consists of many leading and up and coming scholars in our field (in the US and internationally) working on this topic.   A preview of  the TOC below.  Some of the essays are already published on line (early view).

Thanks, Raka Shome

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.     Introduction: Gender, nation, and colonialism:  Twenty first century connections.
Raka Shome

2.      Disrupting the Colonial Transgender/Law Nexus: Reading the Case of W in Hong Kong
John Nguyet Erni

3.     Multicultural feeling, feminist rage, Indigenous refusal
Jenny Burman
 
4.     Edges of Empire: Italy’s Postcolonial Entanglements and the Gender Legacy.
Sandra Ponzanesi
5.     Obituaries as Markers of Memory: Grievability and Visibility in Representations of Aboriginal Women in the National Canadian Imaginary
Yasmin Jiwani
 6.     Women Out of Africa: Naming, Knowing and the Conditions of Being
Boatema Boateng
 
7.     Gender Violence as Global Phenomenon: Refugees, Genital Surgeries, and Neocolonial Projects of the United States
Sara L. McKinnon
 
 






 
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