is edited by Marguerite Waller ((Professor,Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature at UC-Riverside) and Jennifer Rycenga.The edited volume was published by Garland Press in 2000 and re-published by Routledge in 2001.

This is a well-regarded anthology that emerged out of the Frontline Feminisms: Women, War and Resistance conference (1997) co-organized by Marguerite Waller (then-Director) and Piya Chatterjee (Asst.Director and Assist.Professor in WMST and Anthropology).(See our Link on Conferences/Gatherings for more details of this conference).

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Publications 2, 3 and 4 are the result of synergies made possible by  a Ford Foundation grant administered by the Center for Ideas and Society, University of California-Riverside. Special thanks to CIS Director, Emory Elliott (Distinguished Professor of English) and Laura Lozon (Assistant Director) for their consistent and long-term support.

(http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fordgrant_cc0203.htm).

The grant enabled past and present WIC Board members to work on their collaborative and individual projects through a Ford/Cloning Research Cluster on Gender, Globalization and Poverty. Past WIC Board Members supported by this grant who are editors and authors in these book projects are—Tracy Fisher ( Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies); Manali Desai (Lecturer, Sociology, University of Kent-Canterbury); Ellen Reese ( Associate Professor, Sociology); Amalia Cabezas (former Co-Director, Assistant Professor, WMST); Marguerite Waller (former Director, Professor, WMST/Comp.Lit ); Piya Chatterjee ( Current Director, Associate Professor, WMST).

(See http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fordgrant_cc0203rf.htm) 

is edited by Amalia Cabezas (Assistant Professor, WMST), Ellen Reese (Associate Professor, Sociology) and Marguerite Waller (Professor, WMST and Comparative Literature.)

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Description. Essays in this edited volume investigate the related processes of neoliberal economic restructuring and increased militarization and their impacts on low-income women. This interdisciplinary volume provides rich analyses of the oppressive working and living conditions of urban and rural women, rightward shifts in public policies, and women’s resistance to these developments. Much of the recent scholarship on the contemporary empire analyzes it in gender-neutral terms. Instead, this volume contributes to a growing body of feminist literature on globalization, providing haunting and inspiring accounts, from across the globe, of women’s daily struggles with multinational corporations, structural adjustment programs, armed police, and invading armies.

Contributors   include Caitilyn Allen, Carolina Bank Muñoz, Amalia L. Cabezas, Piya Chatterjee, Jill Esbenshade, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, Tracy Fisher, Marina Karides, Joya Misra, Cynthia Mellon, Sabine N. Merz, Jennifer Olmsted, Ellen Reese, Ananya Roy, Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Bernardo Useche, and Marguerite Waller. This book is expected to be published in Spring 2007.

This publication was made possible by funding from a Ford Foundation grant administered by the Center for Ideas and Society, University of California-Riverside. Special thanks to CIS Director, Emory Elliott (Distinguished Professor of English) and Laura Lozon (Assistant Director) for their consistent and long-term support.

a special issue of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture Culture is edited by Amalia Cabezas (Assistant Professor, WMST), Ellen Reese (Associate Professor, Sociology) and Marguerite Waller (Professor, WMST and Comparative Literature.)

Description. This special issue of Social Identities examines how recent shifts in macroeconomic policies have created unprecedented subject formations. Rich case studies from across the globe analyze, under the conditions posed by neoliberal global capitalism, the particular ways that oppression and “opportunity” overlap in the minds and everyday lives of various kinds of male and female subjects, including overseas domestic workers, sex workers, former political prisoners, and elite policy-makers.

Contributors   include Amalia L. Cabezas, Ana Romina Guevarra, Gabriella Fried, Dalit Baum, Marguerite Waller, Jennifer Lynn Stoever, and Katarzyna Marciniak. This special issue will be published in the fall of 2007.

This publication was made possible by funding from a Ford Foundation grant administered by the Center for Ideas and Society, University of California-Riverside. Special thanks to CIS Director, Emory Elliott (Distinguished Professor of English) and Laura Lozon (Assistant Director) for their consistent and long-term support.

is edited by Manali Desai (Lecturer, University of Kent-Canterbury, U.K.), Parama Roy (Associate Professor, English, UC-Davis) and Piya Chatterjee ( Associate Professor, Women’s Studies). It is forthcoming in 2007 from Zubaan Press, New Delhi.

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Description. To broach a volume on the gendered questions of violence, trauma, and witnessing in the South Asian subcontinent is to locate oneself on terrain at once resonant and familiar. In the last couple of decades, violence as an analytic category has loomed large in the historical and anthropological scholarship of South Asia. The challenge of thinking violence in its gendered incarnations fully and in all its complexity is not only theoretical significant and critical, but also irreducibly ethical and political, given the proliferation of civil wars, pogroms and riots, fundamentalist movements, insurgencies and counter-insurgencies, and new technologies of violence and injury. All of these simultaneously feature and help constitute gendered actors and gendered scripts of violence. Feminist historians and other feminist scholars understood, moreover, that the silence that had attended official and academic responses to the violence of Partition was inextricably bound up with traumas of gender and sexuality. Contributors engage the wound of Partition but move well beyond to consider mourning, borders, insurgency and military repression as sites of gendered trauma, resistance and silence.

Contributors   include Jasodhara Bagchi, Yasmin Saikia, Ayesha Ghani, Aytree Sen, Sreela Roy, Paola Bacchetta, Anupama Rao, Malathi DeAlwis, Manali Desai, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Neelam Hussain and Deepti Misri. This publication was made possible by funding from a Ford Foundation grant administered by the Center for Ideas and Society, University of California-Riverside. Special thanks to CIS Director, Emory Elliott (Distinguished Professor of English) and Laura Lozon (Assistant Director) for their consistent and long-term support. Jasmine Payne offered extraordinary research assistance in its early incarnation: anik dhonobad!