Contents
Editors’ Note
Guisela Latorre, Mytheli Sreenivas, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Queering the National Body of Contemporary China
Charlie Zhang
Amazon Island: Revisiting Female Intimacy in Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera’s The Margarita Poems
Marilena Zackheos
Perfect Recluses, Great Workers, and Black Beasts: Frances Trollope’s Cincinnati Women in Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1828–1830
Anna C. Simonson
“Changing the Conversation”: Contexts for Reading Michelle Obama’s American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
Terre Ryan
Urban Educated Women as Marginalized Mainstream in China: Wei Hui’s Shanghai Baby and Mian Mian’s Candy
Jing Song
Beyond the Bedroom: Motherhood in E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy
Sara Upstone
Treading Water
Caitlin M. Alvarez
Elastic Femininity: How Female Israeli Artists Appropriate a Gender-Endangered Practice
Graciela Trajtenberg
Practicing Yoga / Embodying Feminism / Shape-shifting
Suzanne Bost
Artist Statement
Ann Phong
It’s a Long Way to Run
Ann Phong
Isolation
Ann Phong