WST3120 / Global Women’s Writing

Biographical information from the Nobel Prize.

Argues that the work of the Truth Commission of Canada and the Truth Commission of Guatemala shows that the context of a country and the perception of the crime influence the findings on genocide.

How can artistic performance find new modes of representing violence that stop the practice of victim blaming, and how can it make this violence visible in a society that refuses to come to terms with its past? For centuries, the sexual abuse of women has been invisible in patriarchal societies due to the wide-spread belief that any woman not supported by a man is available for sexual satisfaction. This sentiment is even stronger in places with a long colonial history, where the indigenous population has been controlled and discriminated against. Neither Guatemala nor the women did anything to deserve so much suffering, the latter 'guilty' only of having been born female.

Explores youth development outcomes of the program "Women, Agroecology, and Leadership for Conservation," which engages young Q'eqchi' Maya women in Guatemala in learning about sustainable agroecology practices, women's rights to make reproductive and educational choices, and environmental stewardship. Explores challenges and opportunities related to the setting, including gender roles, cultural traditions, and land pressure.

Engages in a close reading of ... Trifonia Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda and track how the intimacies of coloniality in general, and the intimacy of colonial blackness in particular, become “shadows” over the lives, livelihoods, and imaginations of entire communities and nations.

In this interview, translated by Lawrence Schimel, Kyle Dacuyan speaks to Trifonia Melibea Obono, a journalist and professor at the National University of Equatorial Guinea.

Reveals how Moroccan and Equatoguinean regimes, in partnership with Western states and corporations, conjure a mirage of promoting equality while simultaneously undermining women's rights in a bid to cash in on oil, minerals, and other natural resources - gender-washing.

Short review of the book in Kirkus Reviews.

Short review in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide.

New York Times book review.

Short story by Brenda Lozano

Focuses on examples of Indigenous ways of knowing in three communities in Mexico. Highlights ways in which the author—an academic woman—brought the wisdom of Indigenous cultures to the center of academic discourse, and how Indigenous women apply their knowledge and wisdom to heal their communities.

Explains Teresa Urrea’s mystical experiences and visions and their connection with a prophetic apocalyptic and political worldview. Includes a reading of history that is catastrophic and discontinuous.

Focuses on cultural, political, economic, and social topics as they pertain to Mexican women impacted (or not) by the women's struggle in Mexico to achieve gender equality in their country.

From the NYT, Nawal el Saadawi's obituary.

Explores degrees of feminist radicalism as well as developments in African feminist thought, before considering Woman at Point Zero as an example of the radical extreme whose time may have come.

Attempts a postcolonial feminist analysis of El Saadawi's novella Woman at Point Zero in terms of how the politics of female body, in the post(-)colonial metropolitan Egypt, subsume into predicaments like subordination in marriage, homelessness leading to prostitution, and female genital mutilation.

Examines the male-female gender dichotomy in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero