Dear FEAST members,

I am pleased to share with you our latest Wagadu issue: http://journals.cortland.edu/wordpress/wagadu/

Summer 2014, Vol. 12

SPECIAL ISSUE
Queering Borders: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Global Heterosexism

From the academy to the streets, members of the LGBTQ community and their allies are challenging global heterosexism. This special issue of Wagadu, edited by Kathryn Coffey, Associate Professor of Health, SUNY Cortland, is dedicated to an interdisciplinary, intersectional, multi-movement, and multi-dimensional critique of heterosexism, from a global social justice queer perspective.

Table of Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE
Editorial PDF  HTML
Kate Coffey


Contesting Heteronormality: Recasting Same-sex Desire in China’s Past and Present ABSTRACTPDF HTML 
Tiantian Zheng

Queer(y)ing Permanent Partnership* ABSTRACT PDF HTML
Alix Lindsey Olson (*recipient of The Christian Bay Award, Political Science)

Encountering Metronormativity: Geographies of Queer Visibility in Central New York ABSTRACTPDF HTML 
Sean H. Wang

Globetrotting Queerness: Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda ABSTRACT PDF HTML
Minjeong Kim

Transformational Learning: Influence of a Sexism and Heterosexism Course on Student Attitudes and Thought Development ABSTRACTPDF HTML
Judith A. Ouellette and Laura C. Campbell

The Profession Feminism Left Behind: Heterosexism in Schooling and the Teaching Profession ABSTRACTPDF HTML
Cynthia J. Benton


Report from Prison:
Of Studbroads and Strap-ons: The Conflation of Gender and Sexual Orientation by Female Prisoners in Texas as a Discipline of Heteropatriarchal Normality PDF HTML
Cathy Marston

Review Essay
Queer (In)justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, & Kay Whitlock, Beacon Press, 2011;
African Sexual Diversity: Politics, Theory, Citizenship by S.N. Nyeck & Marc Epprecht (eds.), McGill-Queens University Press, 2013. PDFHTML
Mechthild Nagel

GENERAL ISSUE
Gender Equality in Primary Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review and Analysis ABSTRACT PDF HTML
Robert Osadan, Irish Angelica Burrage

BOOK REVIEWS
Exceptional Violence; Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah A. Thomas, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2011 PDFHTML
Kevin Kinsella
Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic by Emily Russell, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2011 PDFHTML
Victoria Boynton

We thank our special editor and book review editor, Kate Coffey, and our managing editor, Tiantian Zheng, Webmaster Justin Stewart and IT Specialist Julia Morog provided invaluable service, along with our translation team Colleen Kattau, Thaddeus Blanchette, Tiantian Zheng, Paulo Quaglio, Marie Pontario, and Bob Pontario, and our anonymous reviewers.
Wagadu is in the process of publishing the special issue with Xlibris. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Haines Fund and the SUNY Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Sincerely,

Mecke Nagel
Wagadu, Editor-in-Chief
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