Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance : A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere

This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English.

1.Introduction: Gender Vulnerability And Resistance.- 2. Growing Resilient Against Adversity: Victims Of Abuse In Irish Magdalene Laundries.- 3. Violence, Vulnerability And Resistance In Room By Emma Donoghue.- 4. Of Mice And Women: Gendered And Speciesist Violence In Joyce Carol Oates''s Martyrdom Fiction".- 5. ''Nobody Kills A Priest'': Vulnerability, Crime Fiction And Irish Social Resistance In Benjamin Black''s Holy Orders.- 6. Refugees'' Situated Vulnerability And Resistance In The Crime Fiction Of Ausma Zehanat Khan.- 7. Detection, Violence And The TV Series: Atkinson''s Jackson Brodie In The BBC.- 8. Resisting Binaries: Vulnerability And Agency Through A Feminist Critical Gaze.- 9. Trans- National Neo- Victorianism: Vulnerability And Gender Resistance In Kate Grenville''s The Secret River (2006).- 10. The Vulnerable Posthuman In Popular Science Fiction Cinema.- 11. Trans* Vulnerability And Resistance: The Case Of Pose (Season 1).- 12. Vulnerability And Resilience In The Dystopian Fiction Of Manjula Padmanabhan.