Gender and Authority across Disciplines, Space and Time

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.