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Border Women Literature and Feminist Cartographies: Student Approaches to Dataset and Visualization Development for Gender‐Based Violence Documentation

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT Researching gender violence and transnational feminist movements fuels commitment to meaningful change. Drawing on Toni Morrison's 1998 call to refuse desensitization to violence, examining how three university students—Niloufar Esmaeili (PhD English), Jessica Corona (MA Spanish), and Jasbeth Medrano (Political Science undergraduate)—engaged with gender violence research through a transborder–transnational feminist digital humanities course titled “Border Women Literature & Feminist Cartographies.” Centered in the El Paso del Norte US–Mexico border region, the course approached gender violence through decolonial and transnational feminist lenses, emphasizing socially responsible data practices. As scholars and women of color, the authors applied these methodologies to their emerging research: Esmaeili's work on Iran's Women Life Freedom movement, Corona's historical documentation of gender violence in Spanish‐language newspapers, and Medrano's policy analysis of migration and gender violence at the US–Mexico border.

Source: Sexuality Gender & Policy

DOI: 10.1002/sgp2.70025

Authors: Niloufar Esmaeili, Jessica Corona, Jasbeth Medrano

Institution: The University of Texas at San Antonio

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities, Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,300