Darlene M Juschka

Darlene M. Juschka is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Religious and Critical studies. Her areas of interest are semiotics, critical theory, feminisms, and posthumanism. Some of her more recent work include: The Construction of Gendered Identities in Myth and Ritual. Companion to global gender history (2nd edition). Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series. 2020.Feminisms and the study of religion in the 21st century (2018). Berlin Journal of Critical Theory. Vol. 3, No. 2 (April, 2019). Feminist approaches to the study of religion. (2017). In Richard King, (ed.), Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches. New York: Columbia University Press,.“Indigenous women and reproductive justice - A narrative” in Carrie Bourassa, Betty McKenna and Darlene Juschka (eds.) Listening to the beat of our drum. Demeter Press, 2017; “Feminism and Gender”. In Steven Engler and Michael Stausberg (eds.), The (Oxford) handbook of the study of religion; with Melissa Wuerch, Kim Zorn, and Mary Hampton (2016). “Responding to Intimate Partner Violence: Challenges Faced among Service Providers in Northern Communities” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, (May), 1-21; and “Enfleshing semiotics: The indexical and symbolic sign-functions”. (2014). She has published four books, Contours of the Flesh: The Semiotics of Pain (2021), with Carrie Bourassa, Betty McKenna  (eds.) (2017). Listening to the beat of our drum: Stories in Indigenous parenting in contemporary society, Political Bodies, Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender (2009) (Translated and published in  Chinese in 2015) and Feminism in the study of religion: A reader (2001). She has also completed a case study focused on Intimate Partner violence in a northern Saskatchewan community.
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