Doing Gender in Media, Art, and Culture

Doing Gender in Media, Art, and Culture provides a critical introduction to recent developments in cultural gender studies. Focussing primarily on the fields of art, culture, and media, it encompasses literary, historical, film, performance, and indigenous studies, as well as the digital humanities. Gender studies currently find themselves at the heart of a deeply troubling socio-political landscape. The 18 chapters in this volume aim to provide knowledge on how to understand the current backlash against feminism and how to navigate the increasingly polarised debates surrounding systemic racism and sexism, anti-trans violence, and non-binary gender identifications. It teaches its readers how to address epistemic inequalities in knowledge production and how to make sense of the role of gender in thinking about racism, climate change, and armed conflict. Analysing the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion is a core task of feminist scholarship and, consequently, motivates the intersectional and gender-sensitive research methods that are brought to the fore in this book. This vibrant and wide-ranging collection of essays is essential reading for anyone seeking an accessible yet sophisticated guide to the foundational issues, concepts, and debates within gender studies.

Rosemarie Buikema is Professor Emeritus of Art, Culture, and Diversity at Utrecht University. She has widely published in the field of Postcolonial Feminist Theory and the Arts and chaired the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University until 2023. Liedeke Plate is Professor of Culture and Inclusivity at Radboud University. She researches the relationships between art, culture, and inclusion, focussing on literature, gender, cultural memory, and the so-called material turn in cultural studies. Kathrin Thiele is Professor of Gender, Culture, and Ecologies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. She researches in the field of feminist critical thinking, with focus on relationality, complexity, and planetary coexistence. She is also the current director of the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University.

Introduction Part 1. Concepts for Doing Gender 1. What is Left Unseen in the Story of Sojourner Truth: Intersectional Feminisms and Feminist Historiography 2. The Politics of Knowledge: Virginia Woolf and the Epistemological Practice of Standpoint and Situatedness 3. Borders and Bridges: Gloria Anzaldúa, Intersectionality, and Interdisciplinarity 4. The Adventures of Sarah Baartmann and the Ethics of Representation 5. Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale: Intersectional Feminist History in the Making Part 2. Intersectional Approaches to Doing Gender 6. 'Woman, Life, Freedom': Feminism, Postcoloniality, and Social Movements 7. (Post)secular Feminisms: Malala, Religion, and Gender Equality 8. Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM): A Political Genealogy of Queer Marxism and Queer of Colour Critique 9. Maintaining Life Under Capitalism: From Wages for Housework to Social Reproduction Theory 10. 'It's All Witches': Feminist Politics of Dissent in the Post-Yugoslav Space 11. Lili Elbe's Transmedial Presence and the Politics of Transgender Studies 12. Doing Masculinity: Williams' Stoner and Masculinity Studies 13. Slavery, the Concubine, and the Nyai Part 3. (Inter)disciplinary Conjunctions to Doing Gender 14. Trinh T. Minh-Ha: Feminist Approaches to Documentary Film 15. Tanya Tagaq (Inuit): Resilient Motherhood and Gender-in-Relation 16. Performing Affect: Marina Abramovic and the Politics of Emotion 17. Shira Spector and the Queer Feminist Politics of Graphic Medicine 18. Intersectional Data Feminism: Digital Data as Technologies of Oppression and Social Justice