In the Crossfire of History

Introduction: Portraits of Resistances

Part I: Representation of Resistance in Art and Media
Chapter 1: Syrian Women's Prison Art: Toward a Poetics of Creative Insurgency
Stefanie Sevcik
Chapter 2: Moving beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Bangladeshi War Movies
Farzana Akhter
Chapter 3: Structuring Jinelogy within Global Feminism: Representations of Kurdish Women Fighters in Western Media
Lava Asaad

Part II: Literature and Resistance
Chapter 4: All the Female Bodies: Female Resistance and Political Consciousness in Testimonies of the Dirty War in Argentina
Lucia Garcia-Santana
Chapter 5: The Woman from Tantoura: An Autotheoretical Reading in the Art of Resistance
Doaa Omran
Chapter 6: South Asian Women and Hybrid Identities: Narratives of Abduction and Displacement in Partition Literature
Margaret Hageman
Chapter 7: Writing Solidarity: Women in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
Carolyn Ownbey
Chapter 8: Sri Lankan Postcolonial Inversion and a "Thousand Mirrors" of Resistance
Moumin Quazi

Part III: Advocacy / Activism
Chapter 9: Kashmiri Women Activists in the Aftermath of the Partition of India
Nyla Ali Khan
Chapter 10: Teaching Narratives of Rape Survivors of the Bangladesh War in a Classroom: A Study on University Students
Shafinur Nahar
Chapter 11: They Fear Us Because We are Fearless: Women-Led Global Environmental Advocacy and its Adversaries
Matthew Spencer

Conclusion: Detangling Resistance
Notes on Contributors
Index

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• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres
• Estudos sobre a paz e resolução de conflitos
• História Militar
• Violência na sociedade

war resistance; global south; female empowerment; women empowerment; feminism; Syrian women; Syrian war efforts; structural violence; Yazidi; Yazidi women; ISIS resistance; Nadia Murad; global south women; Kashmir war; Kashmir; Syrian conflict; political resistance; muslim identity; Palestine; Syria; Kurdistan; Congo; Argentina; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh