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Trans is usually defined as the set of practices and identities outside of the binary gender system and includes individuals who identity as genderqueer, transgender or transsexual. Trans theories refer to a range of approaches including medical and psychiatric theories, performativity and social constructionist theories, and queer theory, that are used to explain transgender practices and identities.

Emotion work is usually defined as the psychological processes necessary to regulate emotions that are desired in specific private life conditions. When controlling the intensity and quality of the individual's feelings is related to the public sphere and undertaken for reasons associated with paid work it is called emotional labor. Such employment occurs in contemporary service economies where the provision of services is often related to "selling feelings," which is mainly performed by women.

The concept of work-family balance was introduced in the 1970s in the United Kingdom based on a work-leisure dichotomy, which was invented in the mid-1800s. It is usually related to the act of balancing of inter-role pressures between the work and family domains that leads to role conflict. The conflict is driven by the organizations' views of the "ideal worker" as well as gender disparities and stereotypes that ignore or discount the time spent in the unpaid work of family and community. Solutions for balance include legislation, flexible workplace arrangements, and the market care services.

The dual labor market theory is one of the primary explanations for the gender differences in earnings. It shows that gender inequality and stereotypes lead to employment of men and women in different segments of the labor market characterized by various incomes. This theory is based on the hypothesis that such markets are divided into segments, which are divided by different rules of conduct for workers and employers. Differences also include production conditions, terms of employment, productivity of employees, and the characteristics of the workers' jobs. This labor division is related to employee characteristics such as gender, age, and race that define their work environment and lifestyle.

In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. "Borders"—defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries—have become increasingly salient sites of struggle over social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the strategies in which they engage? Moreover, how do these social movements confront internal borders based on the differences that emerge within social change initiatives?Border Politics, edited by Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez, explores these important questions through eleven carefully selected case studies situated in geographic contexts around the globe. By conceptualizing struggles over identity, social belonging and exclusion as extensions of border politics, the authors capture the complex ways in which geographic, cultural, and symbolic dividing lines are blurred and transcended, but also fortified and redrawn. This volume notably places right-wing and social justice initiatives in the same analytical frame to identify patterns that span the political spectrum. Border Politics offers a lens through which to understand borders as sites of diverse struggles, as well as the strategies and practices used by diverse social movements in today's globally interconnected world. Contributors: Phillip Ayoub, Renata Blumberg, Yvonne Braun, Moon Charania, Michael Dreiling, Jennifer Johnson, Jesse Klein, Andrej Kurnik, Sarah Maddison, Duncan McDuie-Ra, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Nancy A. Naples, David Paternotte, Maple Razsa, Raphi Rechitsky, Kyle Rogers, Deana Rohlinger, Cristina Sanidad, Meera Sehgal, Tara Stamm, Michelle Téllez

A multidisciplinary group of scholars examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framework of human rights, the book constitutes a call for a new vision on immigration

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I PROVOCATIONS -- One The Many Destinations of Transnational Feminism -- Two Beyond Antagonism: Rethinking Intersectionality, Transnationalism, and the Women's Studies Academic Job Market -- Three Rethinking Patriarchy and Corruption: Itineraries of US Academic Feminism and Transnational Analysis -- PART II SCALE -- Four Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Scale: The 2012 Antirape Protests in Delhi -- Five Transnational Shifts: The World March of Women in Mexico -- Six Network Ecologies and the Feminist Politics of "Mass Sterilization" in Brazil -- PART III INTERROGATING CORPORATE POWER -- Seven Transnational Childhoods: Linking Global Production, Local Consumption, and Feminist Resistance -- Eight Nike's Search for Third World Potential: The Tensions between Corporate Funding and Feminist Futures -- PART IV INTRACTABLE DILEMMAS -- Nine Reproductive Justice and the Contradictions of International Surrogacy Claims by Gay Men in Australia -- Ten Wombs in India: Revisiting Commercial Surrogacy -- PART V NATIONALISMS AND PLURINATIONALISMS -- Eleven Sporting Transnational Feminisms: Gender, Nation, and Women's Athletic Migrations between Brazil and the United States -- Twelve Mozambican Feminisms: Between the Local and the Global -- Thirteen Plural Sovereignty and la Familia Diversa in Ecuador's 2008 Constitution -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: On Location -- I: HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT -- Feminist Cultural Literacy: Translating Differences, Cannibal Options -- Transnational Practices and Interdisciplinary Feminist Scholarship: Refiguring Women's and Gender Studies -- Notes from the (Non)Field: Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color -- The Progress of Gender: Whither ''Women''? -- The Present and Our Past: Simone de Beauvoir, Descartes, and Presentism in the Historiography of Feminism -- II: INSTITUTIONAL PEDAGOGIES (A FORUM) -- Contending with Disciplinarity -- The Past in Our Present: Theorizing the Activist Project of Women's Studies -- Rethinking Collectivity: Chicago Feminism, Athenian Democracy, and the Consumer University -- From Politics to Professionalism: Cultural Change in Women's Studies -- Battle-Weary Feminists and Supercharged Grrls: Generational Differences and Outsider Status in Women's Studies Administration -- Taking Account of Women's Studies -- Nice Work, If You Can Get It—and If You Can't? Building Women's Studies Without Tenure Lines -- The Politics of ''Excellence'' -- III: IN THE SHADOW OF CAPITAL -- Academic Housework: Women's Studies and Second Shifting -- (In)Different Spaces: Feminist Journeys from the Academy to a Mall -- Analogy and Complicity: Women's Studies, Lesbian/Gay Studies, and Capitalism -- Institutional Success and Political Vulnerability: A Lesson in the Importance of Allies -- Life After Women's Studies: Graduates and the Labor Market -- IV: CRITICAL CLASSROOMS -- Strangers in the Classroom -- ''Women of Color in the U.S.'': Pedagogical Reflections on the Politics of ''the Name'' -- Negotiating the Politics of Experiential Learning in Women's Studies: Lessons from the Community Action Project -- What Should Every Women's Studies Major Know? Reflections on the Capstone Seminar -- Subversive Couplings: On Antiracism and Postcolonialism in Graduate Women's Studies -- Afterword: Continuity and Change in Women's Studies -- Bibliography: Locating Feminism -- Contributors -- Index