Jennifer Suchland
Biographic Data
| ID | 274733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Suchland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Suchland |
| SIGNATURE | SUCHLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The LGBT specter in Russia
In Europe ‘homoemancipation’ has played a significant role in legitimating anti-multiculturalism and broader Islamophobia. Similarly, political homophobia in Russia plays a significant role in (re)defining the contested meaning of the nation after the demise of the Soviet empire. While acknowledging the repressive and violent impact of contemporary anti-LGBT legislation and public discourse on LGBT people, this essay analyzes how the discursive r…
Economies of Violence
Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that trafficking is symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics and the economies of violence that sustain them. Examining United Nations procee…
Double framing in Lilya 4-Ever
The image of the trafficked woman from a former state socialist country has come to symbolize the global crisis in sex trafficking. The ‘Natasha’ image is also a referent for the failure of state socialism. This article provides an analysis of the film Lilya 4-Ever (dir. Lukas Moodyson, 2002) to show how both sex trafficking and postsocialism are framed in representations of sex trafficking. The film presents the problem of sex trafficking in two…
Is Postsocialism Transnational
Within U.S. women’s studies, the turn to internationalize knowledge production has instituted an intellectual pathway to certain locations in the world. This essay asks what the historical and intellectual processes are that generated the most common internationalizing formula as global woman = third-world woman → global South = location of transnational feminist analysis. The lack of focus on the former second world obscures the fact that it has…
Contextualizing Discrimination
Focusing on the issue of sexual harassment, I argue that comparative gender studies should go beyond tracking changes to laws that are presumed to be equivalent in meaning across political landscapes. The ‘facts’ that amount to the harm of sexual harassment are tied to normative frames about sexual difference and discrimination. In Russia, the frames of the woman question and gender symmetry animate how sexual harassment is recognized in law. My …
Gender Violence And Hegemonic Projects
This essay introduces the Special Issue theme, gender violence and hegemonic projects. We discuss why re-thinking the relationship between gender violence and hegemonic projects is important for feminist theory and activism. Moving beyond the narrow, representational approach to ‘violence against women’, we argue that the hegemonic projects of the state are constituted through gender violence. Rather than an effect of power, gender violence is th…
The LGBT specter in Russia
In Europe ‘homoemancipation’ has played a significant role in legitimating anti-multiculturalism and broader Islamophobia. Similarly, political homophobia in Russia plays a significant role in (re)defining the contested meaning of the nation after the demise of the Soviet empire. While acknowledging the repressive and violent impact of contemporary anti-LGBT legislation and public discourse on LGBT people, this essay analyzes how the discursive r…
Is Postsocialism Transnational
Within U.S. women’s studies, the turn to internationalize knowledge production has instituted an intellectual pathway to certain locations in the world. This essay asks what the historical and intellectual processes are that generated the most common internationalizing formula as global woman = third-world woman → global South = location of transnational feminist analysis. The lack of focus on the former second world obscures the fact that it has…
Gender Violence And Hegemonic Projects
This essay introduces the Special Issue theme, gender violence and hegemonic projects. We discuss why re-thinking the relationship between gender violence and hegemonic projects is important for feminist theory and activism. Moving beyond the narrow, representational approach to ‘violence against women’, we argue that the hegemonic projects of the state are constituted through gender violence. Rather than an effect of power, gender violence is th…
Double framing in Lilya 4-Ever
The image of the trafficked woman from a former state socialist country has come to symbolize the global crisis in sex trafficking. The ‘Natasha’ image is also a referent for the failure of state socialism. This article provides an analysis of the film Lilya 4-Ever (dir. Lukas Moodyson, 2002) to show how both sex trafficking and postsocialism are framed in representations of sex trafficking. The film presents the problem of sex trafficking in two…
Contextualizing Discrimination
Focusing on the issue of sexual harassment, I argue that comparative gender studies should go beyond tracking changes to laws that are presumed to be equivalent in meaning across political landscapes. The ‘facts’ that amount to the harm of sexual harassment are tied to normative frames about sexual difference and discrimination. In Russia, the frames of the woman question and gender symmetry animate how sexual harassment is recognized in law. My …
Gender Violence And Hegemonic Projects
This essay introduces the Special Issue theme, gender violence and hegemonic projects. We discuss why re-thinking the relationship between gender violence and hegemonic projects is important for feminist theory and activism. Moving beyond the narrow, representational approach to ‘violence against women’, we argue that the hegemonic projects of the state are constituted through gender violence. Rather than an effect of power, gender violence is th…
Contextualizing Discrimination
Focusing on the issue of sexual harassment, I argue that comparative gender studies should go beyond tracking changes to laws that are presumed to be equivalent in meaning across political landscapes. The ‘facts’ that amount to the harm of sexual harassment are tied to normative frames about sexual difference and discrimination. In Russia, the frames of the woman question and gender symmetry animate how sexual harassment is recognized in law. My …
Is Postsocialism Transnational
Within U.S. women’s studies, the turn to internationalize knowledge production has instituted an intellectual pathway to certain locations in the world. This essay asks what the historical and intellectual processes are that generated the most common internationalizing formula as global woman = third-world woman → global South = location of transnational feminist analysis. The lack of focus on the former second world obscures the fact that it has…
Double framing in Lilya 4-Ever
The image of the trafficked woman from a former state socialist country has come to symbolize the global crisis in sex trafficking. The ‘Natasha’ image is also a referent for the failure of state socialism. This article provides an analysis of the film Lilya 4-Ever (dir. Lukas Moodyson, 2002) to show how both sex trafficking and postsocialism are framed in representations of sex trafficking. The film presents the problem of sex trafficking in two…
Economies of Violence
Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that trafficking is symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics and the economies of violence that sustain them. Examining United Nations procee…
The LGBT specter in Russia
In Europe ‘homoemancipation’ has played a significant role in legitimating anti-multiculturalism and broader Islamophobia. Similarly, political homophobia in Russia plays a significant role in (re)defining the contested meaning of the nation after the demise of the Soviet empire. While acknowledging the repressive and violent impact of contemporary anti-LGBT legislation and public discourse on LGBT people, this essay analyzes how the discursive r…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (2 works)