Edited Volumes by Heather Hewett
Edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic (2021)
The #MeToo mo... more Edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic (2021)
The #MeToo movement, created by activist Tarana Burke as a grassroots campaign ten years before it took off on social media, has unleashed a flood of pop culture books on misogyny, rape, rape culture, and sexual assault. Yet to date, no major work considers how the #MeToo movement might enrich our critical and pedagogical literary practices, or how literary and cultural studies might help feminist scholars better understand and marshal the powerful energies of #MeToo.
This volume aims to ignite a conversation about literature, culture, and sexual violence by gathering essays that bring these areas of inquiry and activism to bear on one other.
Refereed Journal Articles by Heather Hewett
Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice, 2016
This article interrogates the ways in which the ideas of diversity, experience, and inclusion bec... more This article interrogates the ways in which the ideas of diversity, experience, and inclusion became central to the introductory Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) course at one institution and the way that various stakeholders define and interpret these terms. After providing a short local history and analyzing current and former instructors' understandings of these concepts as they function in the GWS introductory classroom, the authors further explore these themes with two case studies: transgender inclusion and Native American feminisms.
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, 2006
This article examines how activists, advocacy groups, and writers are positioning the emerging mo... more This article examines how activists, advocacy groups, and writers are positioning the emerging mothers'movement vis-a-vis feminism. Iexplorethe negotiations andselfnaming strategies of various mothers' advocacy groups and how they reveal both ambivalence and allegiance towardferninism, arguing that we should understand the mothers'movement within thebroader-ame offeminism, andspec$cally within the context of the third wave and the ongoing project of redejining and expanding feminism. Moreover, I argue that it may benefit mothers' advocates t o engage more fully with feminist theories andpractice. Feministfiameworkc can he& t o suggest possibilities for increased interchange and alliance-building across the boundaries of d@erence---work that, I believe, remains@ndamental to the formation ofa truly inclusive mothers' and caregivers' movement.
MELUS, 2006
In October of 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered his troops to massacre as many as ... more In October of 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered his troops to massacre as many as 15,000 Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. 1 The attack came as a complete surprise to these Haitians, as well as to many Dominicans; no prior event had warned them of what was about to take place. The killings were swift and particularly brutal. 2 Trujillo ordered his soldiers to use machetes and other crude weapons instead of guns, a brutality captured by the name of the massacre: in Spanish, El Corte, the cutting, and in Haitian Krèyol, kout kouto, the stabbing. 3 Those who survived lived with permanent injuries, scars, and impairments as well as the psychological trauma of having experienced a massacre.
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The Scholar and Feminist Online, 2004
Edited Book Chapters by Heather Hewett
Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies, Vol. 2, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media, and Violence, 2023
#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, 2021
#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, 2021
The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, 2019
This chapter examines English-language life narrative written by those who are positioned in the ... more This chapter examines English-language life narrative written by those who are positioned in the social location of “mother” and whose writing reflects their engagement with the work of mothering. Because the history of both motherhood memoirs and those who would write about their experience as mothers is marked by exclusion and oppression, many scholars define maternal autobiography broadly. Motherhood memoirs in their current form began to be published in the later 20th century, and the subgenre expanded significantly in the later 20th and early 21st centuries. Feminist scholarship on the form has frequently explored topics related to the workings of narrative and the formation of maternal subjectivity. Debates center on whether the form remains complicit with, or critical of, heteronormative gender formation; why the majority of its authors reflect privileged identities, and to what extent this is changing; and how maternal autobiographical subjects are produced through the act of writing about mothering. Motherhood memoirs continue to change, providing a valuable window onto the shifting landscapes of contemporary parenting and family life and inviting us to imagine new possibilities and ways of forming family and raising the next generation.
Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives, 2016
Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies , 2015
The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo, 2015
Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader, 2014
What Do Mothers Need? Motherhood Activists and Scholars Speak Out on Maternal Empowerment for the 21st Century, 2012
Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and Image, 2009
Mothering in the Third Wave, 2008
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Edited Volumes by Heather Hewett
The #MeToo movement, created by activist Tarana Burke as a grassroots campaign ten years before it took off on social media, has unleashed a flood of pop culture books on misogyny, rape, rape culture, and sexual assault. Yet to date, no major work considers how the #MeToo movement might enrich our critical and pedagogical literary practices, or how literary and cultural studies might help feminist scholars better understand and marshal the powerful energies of #MeToo.
This volume aims to ignite a conversation about literature, culture, and sexual violence by gathering essays that bring these areas of inquiry and activism to bear on one other.
Refereed Journal Articles by Heather Hewett
Edited Book Chapters by Heather Hewett
The #MeToo movement, created by activist Tarana Burke as a grassroots campaign ten years before it took off on social media, has unleashed a flood of pop culture books on misogyny, rape, rape culture, and sexual assault. Yet to date, no major work considers how the #MeToo movement might enrich our critical and pedagogical literary practices, or how literary and cultural studies might help feminist scholars better understand and marshal the powerful energies of #MeToo.
This volume aims to ignite a conversation about literature, culture, and sexual violence by gathering essays that bring these areas of inquiry and activism to bear on one other.