Bitches Unleashed: Performance and Embodied Politics in Favela Funk (Possibilities, Band 27) - Hardcover

Moreira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433169568 ISBN 13: 9781433169564

Verlag: Peter Lang, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This book challenges white and Western feminist approaches to embodied politics, or the use of the body in everyday enactments of resistance, while mapping transgressive performances of femininities by the funkeiras, marginalized women and transfeminine people of color artists in Brazilian favela funk. Often studied from a white feminist perspective, embodied politics reflects debates about agency and structural change that are generally applicable to white women in the West. Concurrently, studies of femininity tend to universalize experiences of gender oppression encountered by white women to women across the globe. In this work, the author offers a transnational perspective on the performative force of embodied politics as a possible means to disrupt white, classist heteropatriarchal structures that oppress particularly poor women and transfeminine people of color in Brazil. This project has a threefold goal: first, it challenges the theoretical shortcomings of white feminist approaches to embodied politics, providing instead a transfeminista take on the concept. Secondly, this project aims to shed light on how traditional methodological approaches have hindered nuanced understandings of women and people of color and their performances. Third and finally, by challenging and re-envisioning the potential of embodied politics from a transnational perspective, the text intends to contribute to the field of critical intercultural communication’s growing but still limited research around bodies and performance, especially of those who are marginalized in global contexts.

Winner of the 2021 Bonnie Ritter Book Award, Feminist and Gender Studies Division, National Communication Association; the 2022 Distinguished Scholarship Award for the Best Book, International and Intercultural Communication Division; and the 2023 Innovator Award for Most Outstanding Book, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Caucus, Central States Communication Association.

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Raquel Moreira (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor of Communication at Southwestern University. Her research focuses on the role of transgressive performances of femininities in the struggle against structural violence in Brazil. Moreira’s research has received the 2020 Monograph of the Year Award from NCA’s GLBTQ Communication Division and the 2017 Feminist Scholar of the Year from the Organization for Research on Women and Communication.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1433169568
• ISBN 13: 9781433169564
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland