Identities on the Move: Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities. Silvia Pilar Castro Borrego and María Isabel Romero Ruiz, eds.

Calvo Pascual, Mónica Carolina (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Sixteen chapters might seem too many for a collection of essays, and the diversity of topics, objects of analysis, and theoretical frameworks found in the table of contents might, at a glance, suggest a degree of random incoherence. However, an attentive reading demonstrates that those factors constitute one of the main strengths of the volume. Identities on the Move travels with ease and smoothly from one chapter to the next in an engaging trip that gradually integrates a wide range of issues and analytical tools with two distinctly common denominators: the focus on gender and sexuality (as the book’s subheading appropriately points out) and the interdisciplinary, politically committed frame of cultural studies. More significantly, the volume is further enriched by the shared interest of all the chapters in the intersectionality of identity, as they all center on the meaning and implications of the crossing of gender and sexuality with other axes constitutive of the so-oft questioned notion of identity; namely: class, race, (post)coloniality, religion, location, and the socially-inflected assessment of intellectual ability.

Idioma: Inglés

Año: 2016

Publicado en: Miscelánea (Zaragoza) 54 (2016), 137-141
ISSN: 1137-6368

Originalmente disponible en: Texto completo de la revista

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.101 - Literature and Literary Theory (Q3) - Linguistics and Language (Q4) - Cultural Studies (Q4) - Language and Linguistics (Q4)

Tipo y forma: (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)