The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands

Zalfa Feghali is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. An American Studies scholar, she works primarily on contemporary North American literature and culture and publishes in border studies, reading studies, and vulnerability studies. She is the author of Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship: Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing (2019). Deborah Toner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Leicester, UK. She publishes on the history of alcohol in the Americas, with a particular focus on ideas of nationhood, gender, race, and ethnicity in Mexico, the United States, and Guyana. She is the author of Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (2015) and the editor of Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire and War (2021). She was a co‑Founder and co‑Director of the Drinking Studies Network from 2010 to 2024.

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Part One: Introduction to Gender and Borderlands

1. Introduction: The Case for Globalizing Gender and Borderlands

Zalfa Feghali and Deborah Toner

2. Approaches to Gender Studies

Elliot Evans

3. Approaches to Border Studies

Caleb Bailey

Part Two: Intimate Borders

Introduction to Part Two: Intimate Borders

Zalfa Feghali and Deborah Toner

4. Border Women, Queer Mestizas, and Nagualas: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands Ontologies

Suzanne Bost

5. Masculinity and Homosociality in Colonial-Carceral Borderlands: Australia, Bermuda, and Gibraltar, 1824-1875

Katherine Roscoe

6. Gender, Mobility, and Borders in Transoceanic Migrations in the Indian Ocean Region: The South Asian Diaspora to Africa 1914-1930

Kalpana Hiralal

7. Intimate Saharan Borders in Crisis Times: Mixed Marriages and Humanitarian Aid Workers in the Sahara-Sahel

Amalia Dragani

8. The Intimate is International: Reproductive Health Dynamics in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands

Andréanne Bissonnette

9. Intimate Borders of South Asian Queer Diasporas in the UK

Dhiren Borisa and Gavin Brown

Part Three: Cultural and Civic Borders

Introduction to Part Three: Cultural and Civic Borders

Deborah Toner and Zalfa Feghali

10. Connecting Women across the Mountains: Gendered, Geopolitical, and Interspecies Liminality in the Making of Buddhist Communities of the Contemporary Himalayas

Amy Holmes‑Tagchungdarpa

11. The Limits of National Legislation in Local and Transnational Spaces: How to Protect Trokosi Girls in Ghana?

Nathalie Raunet

12. Gendered Framing of Asylum Reception as “borderwork” at the Finnish-Swedish Borderland

Eeva‑Kaisa Prokkola

13. Intersecting Gender through New Media Art: Visual Inquiry on a Recent Migration Phenomenon in Europe and Beyond

Katarzyna Kosmala

14. Screening Mohawk Stories: Gender and Cinema in Kanien’kehá:ka Territory

Gillian Roberts

15. Alcohol, Temperance, and the Shifting Borders of Gender, 1750-1850

Deborah Toner and Natasha Bailey

Part Four: Embodied and Violent Borders

Introduction to Part Four: Embodied and Violent Borders

Deborah Toner and Zalfa Feghali

16. Beyond Physical Borders: Intimate Borders and the Lives of Women in Kashmir

Roonaq un Nisa

17. The Borders of Abortion and Identity: Moral Shadowboxing on the Island of Ireland, 1920-2018

Lindsey Earner‑Byrne and Diane Urquhart

18. Contemporary Indigenous and Chicana Women Writers’ Experiences of Rape Culture and Psychopathy

Hannah Spruce

19. The Borders of Femicide and Gender Violence in Guatemala

Lynn Stephen

20. Podcasting and Gender-Based Violence in Canada, the US, and Mexico

Zalfa Feghali

21. The Intimacy of Violence: Family Experiences of Bolivian Aymara Women in The Andean Tri-Border

Menara Guizardi

Part Five: Economic Borders

Introduction to Part Five: Economic Borders

Deborah Toner and Zalfa Feghali

22. Gender Difference in the South Pacific Labor Trade: An Examination of Labor Mobility and Shifting Identity in the Australian/Melanesian Context

Naomi Alisa Calnitsky

23. Gender and Labor in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Sonia Hernández

24. Women on the Andean Border of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru

Carolina Stefoni and Marcela Tapia

25. Recasting Gender: Precarity, Exchange, and Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Borderlands

Malini Sur

26. Gendered Dynamics of Cross-border Trade in West Africa

Olivier J. Walther and Leena Koni Hoffmann

27. Informal Trade and Gendered Resistance on the Belarus-Lithuania Borderland

Olga Sasunkevich

Part Six: Changing, Challenging, Resisting

Introduction to Part Six: Changing, Challenging, Resisting

Zalfa Feghali and Deborah Toner

28. Relational Ecologies in Contemporary Chicana Border Art

Stephanie Lewthwaite

29. Literary Activism, Women's Activism and Social Production in 21st-Century Uganda

Madhu Krishnan

30. Black Women and Transnational Resistance

Nele Sawallisch

31. Unaccompanied Minors in the Borderlands: Suspicions and Assumptions at the Intersection of Gender and Social Age

Christina Clark‑Kazak

32. The Politics of "Dis/appearing": Visibility, Desire, and Violence in a Dance Performance by a North Korean Women's Performing Arts Troupe in South Korea

Iain Sands

33. Teaching-inspired Research, Critical Pedagogies, and Educational Resources

Zalfa Feghali and Deborah Toner