Americas


Latin America –

23.1: “Mes del viento / Month of wind” by Cece Roth-Eagle (p. 14)

“Indigenous Women on the Frontlines of Climate Activism: The Battle for Environmental Justice in the Amazon” by Sônia Bone Guajajara and Célia Xakriabá with an introductory note by Malcolm McNee and translation by Elena Langdon (p. 82)

19.2: “Precursor to Women of Color Feminism: The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World and Their Internationalist Orientation” by Sheilena M. Downey (p. 271)

“Petition for a Comprehensive Law Against Gender-Based Violence in Cuba” by Lucía M. Suárez (p. 383)

19.1: “Federada Testimonios on the Ground: Revealing the Gendered Limits in Operationalizing the Cuban Revolution’s Campaign against Prostitution” by Alyssa Garcia (p. 149)

18.2: “Genealogies of Transnational Activism: The Somos Hermanas Project in
Central America” by Denisse D. Velázquez (p. 394)

“Petition for a Comprehensive Law against Gender-Based Violence in Cuba” by Deema Kaedbey, Nadine Naber (p. 457)

14.2: SPECIAL ISSUE “African Descendant Feminisms in Latin America Part II: South and Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean”

14.1: SPECIAL ISSUE “African Descendant Feminisms in Latin America Part I: Brazil”

13.2: “Indo-Caribbean Women from Trinidad and Guyana: Hardships, Conflict, and Resiliency” by Odessa D. Despot (p. 1)

13.1: “The Dirty Body that Cleans: Representations of Domestic Workers in Brazilian Common Sense” by Patricia de Santana Pinho (p. 103)

5.1: “Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature” by Kwame Dixon (p. 264)

3.1: “The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Struggle Against Impunity in Argentina” by Rita Arditti (p. 19)

1.1: “Translating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organizing on Local Feminist
Discourses and Practices in Latin America” by Sonia E. Alvarez (p. 29)


The Caribbean –

19.2: “Dominican Futurism: The Speculative Use of Negative Aesthetics in the Work of Rita Indiana” by Kristie Soares (p. 401)

17.1: “Witchcrafts of Color: Suzanne Césaire, Mayotte Capécia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique” by Marina Magloire (p. 97)

16.2: “The Dance Chose Me: Womanist Reflections on Bèlè Performance in Contemporary Martinique” by Camee Maddox-Wingfield (p. 295)

15.2: “The International Engagements of Working-Class Jamaican Women: Listening to Louise Bennett and Her Routes Women” by Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo (p. 412)

“Triangular Voyages: Locating the Transnational Caribbean Woman in Paule Marshall’s ‘To Da-duh, in Memoriam’” by Sam Vásquez (p. 464)

14.2: SPECIAL ISSUE “African Descendant Feminisms in Latin America Part II: South and Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean”

13.2: “Indo-Caribbean Women from Trinidad and Guyana: Hardships, Conflict, and Resiliency” by Odessa D. Despot (p. 1)

11.1: SPECIAL ISSUE “Memory”

10.1: “‘Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?’: Postcolonial Sexualities, National Reception, and Caribbean Soca Performance” by Samantha Pinto (p. 137)

9.1: “Queering Puerto Rican Women’s Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Pantoja and Luisita López Torregrosa” by Lourdes Torres (p. 83)

7.2: “Reconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff’s ‘Rebel Women’” by Jennifer Thorington Springer (p. 43)

7.1: “Size Matters: Figuring Gender in the (Black) Jamaican Nation” by Winnifred Brown-Glaude (p. 38)

“From Trigueñita to Afro–Puerto Rican: Intersections of the Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland” by Maritza Quiñones Rivera (p. 162)

5.1: SPECIAL SECTION “Voices from Hispaniola”

3.2: “Confronting Power and Politics: A Feminist Theorizing of Gender in Commonwealth Caribbean Societies” by Violet Eudine Barriteau (p. 57)

1.1: “Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production” by Ginetta Candelario (p. 128)

US American South –

19.2: “Playing the ‘Lady Sambo’: Poor Black Women’s Legal Strategies in the Post–Civil War South’s Civil Courts” by Leigh-Anne Francis (p. 250)

16.2: “The 1938 Mississippi Health Project” by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (p. 393)

3.2: “Dreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay” by Kristal Brent Zook (p. 278)


US and Canada –

23.1: “The Contemporary Origins of Smum’iem Matriarchy in Sinixt Təmxwúlaʔxw”

Transcribed from recordings with Marilyn James, Sinixt Smum’iem Matriarch
Marilyn James with an introductory note by Lori Barkley and transcription by Sarah Beauchamp (p. 259)

21.1: “An Intersectional Approach to Interrogating Rights: How the United States Does Not Comply with the Racial Equality Treaty” by Malia Lee Womack (p. 236)

20.2: “Between Orientalism and Anti-Muslim Racism: Pakistan, the United States, and Women’s Transnational Activism in the Early Cold War Interlude” by Elora Shehabuddin (p. 340)

“Queering Islam and Muslim Americanness: Perversity, Recognition, and Failure in Usama Alshaibi’s ‘Profane’” by Taneem Husain (p. 466)

17.1: “Sassy Mouths, Unfettered Spirits, and the Neo-Lynching of Korryn Gaines and Sandra Bland: Conceptualizing Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome and the Familiar ‘Policing’ of Black Women’s Resistance in Twenty-First-Century America” by Zoe Spencer and Olivia N. Perlow (p. 163)

16.1: “How to Write about Hawai’i: A Guide to the Handling of Indigenous Characters, Inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina’s ‘How to Write About Africa’” by Leilani Rania Ganser (p. 157)

15.1: “Mourning in America: A Black Mother’s Blues Song for the Mothers of Tamir Rice & Tyre King” by Karsonya Wise Whitehead (p. 1)

“Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada” by Lena Palacios (p. 137)

10.1: “Revisiting Blu’s Hanging: A Critique of Queer Transgression in the Lois-Ann Yamanaka Controversy” by Cynthia Wu (p. 32)

9.1: “Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender-oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in the U.S. and Canada” by Julia Sudbury (p. 1)

“The Formation of a Chinese Immigrant Working-class Patriarchy: Reinventing Gendered Expectations within the Structural Confines of U.S. Society” by Yu Shi (p. 31)

SPECIAL SECTION: “From the Archives: 2008 U.S. Election”

7.2: “‘Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States,’ A Traveling Public Art Exhibition” by Rickie Solinger (p. 63)

7.1: “‘Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood’: Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic, Or: ‘They Done Taken My Blues and Gone’” by Karla F. C. Holloway (p. 1)

“From Trigueñita to Afro–Puerto Rican: Intersections of the Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland” by Maritza Quiñones Rivera (p. 162)

6.2: “Guantanamo: A Feminist Perspective on U.S. Human Rights Violations” by Victoria Brittain (p. 209)

4.2: “Legislative Tactics in a Movement Strategy: The Economic Human Rights – Pennsylvania Campaign” by Mary Bricker-Jenkins (p. 108)

“From the Center to the Margins: The Radicalization of Human Rights in the United States” by Laura Roskos (p. 129)

2.1: “Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex California and Beyond” by Angela Y. Davis and Cassandra Shaylor (p. 1)

“Histories and Heresies: Engendering the Harlem Renaissance” by Cheryl A. Wall (p. 59)

1.1: Poems by Miyoko Sugano, Cathy Kanoelani Ikeda, Muriel M. Ah Sing Hughes,

Tamara Wong-Morrison, Juliet S. Kono, and Cathy Song with a note on Hawai’i’s local literature by Miyoko Sugano (p. 110)


US-Mexican Borderlands –

13.1: “Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers in the
US–Mexico Borderlands” by Long Thanh Bui (p. 129)

11.2: “Solidarity across Borders: An Interview with Artist Andrea Arroyo” by Vanessa Pérez Rosario (p. 91)

5.2: “Coyotes, Comadres, y Colegas: Theorizing the Personal in Ruth Behar’s ‘Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story’” by Susana S. Martinez (p. 149)