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.

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.