The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies.

This interdisciplinary collection seeks to understand the complex nexus at which gender and the borderlands intersect, modelling radical relationality at epistemological, ontological, and activist levels. Going beyond border studies’ frequent site at the U.S.–Mexico Border, this book examines the power relations of borderlands as they play out in, influence, and reflect gender dynamics. Contributors draw on case studies from around the world, and their chapters span diverse fields from anthropology, literature, and history, to political science, religious studies, sociology, and the arts.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies, gender studies, and the wide range of interlocking disciplines that inform and enrich these fields.

Chapters 1, 15 and 20 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Zalfa Feghali is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. An American Studies scholar, she works primarily on contemporary North American literature and culture and publishes in border studies, reading studies, and vulnerability studies. She is the author of Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship: Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing (2019).

Deborah Toner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Leicester, UK. She publishes on the history of alcohol in the Americas, with a particular focus on ideas of nationhood, gender, race, and ethnicity in Mexico, the United States, and Guyana. She is the author of Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (2015) and the editor of Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire and War (2021). She was a co‑Founder and co‑Director of the Drinking Studies Network from 2010 to 2024.