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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Dawn L. Hutchinson and Lori Underwood - Contributions by Jason Ray Carney; James Cornette; Patricia Hopkins; Dawn L. Hutchinson; Gaius Jatau; Mujtaba Ali Muhammad; Geovani Ramirez; Ursula Scheidegger; Lori Underwood and Sandra Williamson-Ashe Klappentext The Intersectionality of Women's Lives and Resistance uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality. Contributors offer interdisciplinary analyses of how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and other identity markers in complex ways, and how these are tied to the interconnected nature of systems of oppression, power, and privilege. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Race, Gender, Power, Alterity, and the Black Power Movement Dawn Hutchinson and Lori UnderwoodChapter 2: Poverty and the Challenges of Women Participants in Nigerian Politics. Gaius JatauChapter 3: The De-reifying Gaze of the Gothic Heroine Jason Ray CarneyChapter 4: Democracy and the Limitations on Women's Rights Ursula ScheideggerChapter 5: Ruiz de Burton's Inviolable Californios and Roguish Anglos in The Squatter and the Don and Who Would Have Thought It? Geovani RamirezChapter 6: Violence and the Black Female Body: Deconstructing Images of Rape in Toni Morrison's Beloved Patricia HopkinsChapter 7: Post- Partum Variables among Breastfeeding Women on Maternal and Infant Health in Ekiti State Nigeria." Ogunlade Joseph Olurotimi and Babatunde Chritianah AdekemiChapter 8: Resist, Survive, Endure: Empowered Female Characters in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin Novels James CornetteChapter 9: A Distinct Set of Characteristics for Black Women at an HBCU: Tortured by Slavery-Shaped by Intersectionality- Liberated into Othermothering Sandra Williamson-AsheChapter 10: Forced Migration: Boko Haram's Induced Migration and the Plight of Women and Young Girls in Northern Nigeria Majtubi Ali Muhammad...