By Amy Lind,Marianne H. Marchand,Amy, Asst Prof Lind,Anne Sisson, Professor Runyan,Marianne H, Professor Marchand,Patricia, Professor McDermott
Since the institution of the North American loose alternate contract (NAFTA) tensions bearing on immigration developments and regulations, which persisted to expand on the flip of the millennium ended in revised nationwide safety guidelines in Mexico, Canada, and the us. those tensions have catalyzed the 3 governments to reconsider their political and financial agendas.
While nationwide feminist scholarship in and on those respective nations proceed to predominate, due to the fact NAFTA, there was expanding feminist inquiry in a North American nearby body. much less has been performed to appreciate demanding situations of the hegemonies of kingdom, area, and empire during this context and to thoroughly comprehend the that means of (im)mobility in people's lives in addition to the (im)mobilities of social theories and pursuits like feminism.
Drawing from present feminist scholarship on intimacy and political financial system and utilizing 3 major frameworks: Fortressing Writs/Exclusionary Rights, cellular Bodies/Immobile Citizenships, and Bordered/Borderland Identities, a handpicked workforce of proven and emerging feminist students methodically study how the creation of feminist wisdom has happened during this zone. the industrial, racial, gender and sexual normativities that experience emerged and/or been reconstituted in neoliberal and securitized North the USA extra exhibit the intensity of neighborhood and worldwide restructuring.
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Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in Transnational Perspective (Gender in a Global/Local World) by Amy Lind,Marianne H. Marchand,Amy, Asst Prof Lind,Anne Sisson, Professor Runyan,Marianne H, Professor Marchand,Patricia, Professor McDermott
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