Florida without Borders

Women at the Intersections of the Local and Global

Edited By: Judy A. Hayden, Sharon Kay Masters, Kim Vaz

£34.99

This anthology explores women’s activism across borders, highlighting global issues like human rights, poverty, and trafficking. Feminist scholars investigate the gendered body in activism, the obstacles women face, and the fight for feminist social change.

Florida without Borders: Women at the Intersections of the Local and Global highlights the problems facing women around the world by featuring papers that explore…

Florida without Borders: Women at the Intersections of the Local and Global highlights the problems facing women around the world by featuring papers that explore women’s activism across borders regarding gender and human rights, issues regarding women and poverty, globalization, economic value of immigrant labor, militarism and human trafficking. Also discussed are the opportunities and obstacles women face when they act to counter the negative impact of these forces. This anthology is a collection of essays by feminist scholars and students who examine discourses on border crossings, political and cultural censorship, gendered codes of conduct, prescribed behavior for women and the activism that emerges to address identity formation, to advance contested meanings and to build coalitions. Throughout the essays, the authors investigate the concepts of the gendered body in the context of global activism, the uses of women’s bodies in domestic, military, and sexual service, and the breaching of the body’s borders and boundaries in the project of feminist social change.

Judy Hayden, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Writing and Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Tampa. Her journal essays appear in Women’s History Magazine, English, Papers on Language and Literature, Critical Survey, and Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. Her book on Aphra Behn is forthcoming.

Sharon Kay Masters, Ph.D., is Professor and Coordinator of Sociology and Director of Women’s Studies at Florida Southern College. She co-edited Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Women’s Studies, a textbook for Florida Southern courses, and the Florida Consortium for Women’s and Gender Studies’ first anthology, Many Floridas: Women Envisioning Change.

Kim Vaz, Ph.D. and LMHC, is Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of South Florida. Her books include The woman with the artistic brush: A life history of Yoruba batik artist, Nike Davies; Black Women in America; Oral Narrative Research with Black Women; and Benefiting by Design: A Feminist Psychology of Women of Color (forthcoming).