Gender and Authority across Disciplines, Space and Time

Adele Bardazzi is Laming Research Fellow at Queen’s College, University of Oxford, UK.  Alberica Bazzoni is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK.

• 1. Introduction: Gender and Authority; Adele Bardazzi and Alberica Bazzoni.- Part 1. Politics.- 2. Language and the Problem of Women’s Authority; Deborah Cameron.- 3. Negotiating Authority through Feminism: Girls' Political Experience in Italian Social Movements; Arianna Mainardi and Carlotta Cossutta.- 4. Kenyan Political Autobiographies: Reviving Generational Power and Masculine Authority; Anaïs Angelo.- 5. #MeToo, but First...: The Question of Analytic Priority in Identity Politics; Antonette Talaue-Arogo.- 6. "Exemplary" Lesbians: The Struggle for Adequate Representation; Charlotte Ross.- Part 2. Law and Religion.- 7. The Bio-medicalization of Intersex Variations between Medical and Parental Authority; Michela Balocchi and Ino Kehrer.- 8. “The Law Believes the Words of Women More Than the Words of Men”: Gendered Experiences of Divorce in Ben Ali’s Tunisia; Sarah Grosso.- 9. What Does the Shastra Have to Say? The Age of Consent Bill Controversy and the Reimagination of Hinduismin Modern Western India; Alok Oak.- 10. Female Religious Authority in Muslim Majority Contexts: Past Examples and Modern State-Initiatives; Roja Fazaeli.- 11. Lived Religion and Female Informal Authority in a Neighborhood in Stuttgart, Germany; Petra Kuppinger.- Part 3. Imaginaries.- 12. The Politics of Reproduction: Abortion and Authority in Soviet Cinema; Serian Carlyle and Rachel Morley.- 13. Female Genital Mutilation: Authority, Fact and Fiction; Tobe Levin von Gleichen.- 14. The Authority of Pornography; F. Vera-Grey.- 15. Reconfiguring the Template: Representations of Powerful Women in Historical Fiction - The Case of Anna Komnene; Ioulia Kolovou.- 16. Staging Female Creatives in French Caribbean Women’s Theatre; Vanessa Lee.