Transnational Borderlands in Women's Global Networks

PART I: GLOBALIZATION, TRANSNATIONALISMS, AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN THE BORDERLANDS Transnational Feminism, Globalization, and the Politics of Representation in Chicana Visual Art; C.Román-Odio Markings on the Walls: Writing in Opposition in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood ; I.Mata Global Patagonia: Belén Gache's Nomadic Writings; M.Sierra Family Imaginaries and Postmemory in Chilean Narrative: Andrea Jeftanovic's Escenario de Guerra and Lina Meruane's Cercada ; B.Llanos Iraqi Women, Jewish Men, and Global Noises in Two Texts by Ya'qub Balbul; O.Bashkin PART II: TRANSNATIONAL DECENTERING OF HUMAN/WOMEN'S RIGHTS Race, Gender, and Human Rights: A Glimpse into the Transnational Feminist Organization of Afro-Brazilian Women; J.Franklin Shaping Political Discourse on Women's Rights: The Role of Women in the Amendment of Gender Policies in Turkey; G.A.Marshall Trouble in the Global Village: A Snapshot of LGBT Community in Eastern Europe; A.Klosowska PART III: PEDAGOGIES OF CROSSING AND DISSENT The Vagina Monologues: Theoretical, Pedagogical, and Geopolitical Concerns; K.Williams The Long Table Model: Bringing Transnational Feminist Debates to a Small University in Iowa; K.Strzepek, B. Jacobson, & K.Van Blair