In my introduction, I seek to provide a theoretical framework for reading the critical essays, narratives and poetry depicting women's struggles over water. I use theories about capital accumulation, the commodification of natural resources and women's bodies, biopolitical state power, the state of exception, the bare life and the new imperialism. I believe that these theories illustrate the multiple yet specific ways in which the gendered politics of water plays out in different contexts. I invite readers to understand this layered perspective in relation to another kind of layering - the intertexual generic expectations that get built into the act of reading the various kinds of texts included in this issue.
From: International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 9 no. 4 (December 2007)
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