Table of Contents:
  • Violence, bodies, and the color of fear: an introduction / Arturo J. Aldama
  • Borders, violence, and the struggle for Chicana and Chicano subjectivity / Arturo J. Aldama
  • Hungarian poetic nationalism or national pornography?: Eastern Europe and feminism-with a difference / Anikó Imre
  • Militarizing the feminine body: women's participation in the Tamil nationalist struggle / Yamuna Sangarasivam
  • Blood and dirt: politics of women's protest in Armagh prison, Northern Ireland / Leila Neti
  • Bodily metaphors, material exclusions: the sexual and racial politics of domestic partnership in France / Catherine Raissiguier
  • Mattering national bodies and sexualities: corporeal contest in Marcos and Brocka / Rolando B. Tolentino
  • The time of violence: deconstruction and value / Elizabeth Grosz
  • Consuming cannibalism: the body in Australia's Pacific archive / Mike Hayes
  • Global genocide and biocolonialism: on the effect of the human genome diversity project on targeted indigenous peoples/ecocultures as "isolates of historic interest" / M.A. Jaimes Guerrero
  • Angola, convict leasing, and the annulment of freedom: the vectors of architectural and discursive violence in the U.S. "slavery of prison" / Dennis Childs
  • Bernhard Goetz and the politics of fear / Jonathan Markovitz
  • Pierced tongues: language and violence in Carmen Boullosa's Dystopia / Margarita Saona
  • Constituting transgressive interiorities: nineteenth-century psychiatric readings of morally mad bodies / Heidi Rimke
  • When electrolysis proxies for the existential: a somewhat sordid meditation on what might occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros asked Rita Hayworth her name / William Anthony Nericcio and Guillermo Nericcio García
  • Double cross: transmasculinity and Asian American gendering in trappings of transhood / Sel J. Wahng
  • Teumsae-eso: Korean American women between feminism and nationalism / Elaine H. Kim
  • Mapuche shamanic bodies and the Chilean state: polemic gendered representations and indigenous responses / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
  • Re/membering the body: Latina testimonies of social and family violence / Yvette Flores-Ortiz
  • Sita's war and the body politic: violence and abuse in the lives of South Asian women / Sunita Peacock
  • Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites and the hell of heteronormativity / David William Foster
  • Medicalizing human rights and domesticizing violence in postdictatorship market-states / Lessie Jo Frazier
  • Las super madres de Latino America: transforming motherhood and houseskirts by challenging violence in Juárez, México, Argentina, and El Salvador / Cynthia L. Bejarano.