Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects : Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body ISBN: 9781443827782 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Political Science; Social Science;
The present volume explores through cultural and literary representations the contributions of women to the construction of knowledge in an ever changing, global world as migrant subjects. The essays contained in this book also focus on the female body as a site of physical violence and abuse, fighting prevalent stereotypes about womenOCOs representations and identities. This collection intends to enter a forum of discussion in which the colonial past serves as a point of reference for the anal..."