Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780415780797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 326 str.

Debra Bergoffen

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Confronting Global Gender Justice contains a unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays that address some of the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, analysts, and educators engaged in the tasks of defining and researching women's rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women's lives. With thematic sections on Complicating Discourses of Victimhood, Interrogating Practices of Representation, Mobilizing Strategies of Engagement, and Crossing Legal Landscapes, this volume offers both specific case studies and more general theoretical interventions. Contributors examine and assess current understandings of gender justice, and offer new paradigms and strategies for dealing with the complexities of gender and human rights as they arise across local and international contexts. In addition, it offers a particularly timely assessment of the effectiveness and limits of international rights instruments, governmental and nongovernmental organization activities, grassroots and customary practices, and narrative and photographic representations. This book is a valuable resource for both undergraduate and graduate students in fields such as Gender or Women's Studies, Human Rights, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology, as well as researchers and professionals working in related areas.

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Introduction: Women's Lives, Human Rights  Part 1: Complicating the Discourses of Victimhood  1. Women and the Genocidal Rape of Women: The Gender Dynamics of Gendered War Crimes  2. Human Trafficking: Why is it Such and Important Women's Issue?  3. Transforming the Representable: Asian Women in Anti-Trafficking Discourse  4. Sin, Salvation, or Starvation? The Problematic Role of Religious Morality in U.S. Anti-Sex Trafficking Policy  Part 2: Interrogating Practices of Representation  5. How Not to Give Rape Political Significance  6. Human Trafficking: A Photographic Essay  7. Marjorie Agosín's Poetics of Memory: Human Rights, Feminism, and Literary Forms  8. Digital Storytelling for Gender Justice: Exploring the Challenges of Participation and the Limits of Polyvocality  Part 3: Strategies of Engagement  9. 'Sweet Electrical Greetings': Women, HIV, and the Evolution of an Intervention Project in Papua New Guinea  10. Economic Empowerment of Women as a Global Project: Economic Rights in the Neo-Liberal Era  11. Algerian Women in Movement: Three Waves of Feminist Activism  12. Using Law and Education to Make Human Rights Real in Women's Real Lives  Part 4: Crossing Legal Landscapes  13. Seduced by Information, Contaminated by Power: Women's Rights as a Global Panopticon  14. Human Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Developing Countries  15. Gender and Customary Mechanisms of Justice in Uganda  16. Policing Bodies and Borders: Women, Prostitution, and the Differential Regulation of U.S. Immigration Policy  17. The Institutionalization of Domestic Violence Against Women in the United States  Part 5: Confronting Global Gender Justice  18. Configuring Feminisms, Transforming Paradigms: Reflections from Kum-Kum Bhavnani, from an Interview with Kum-Kum Bhavnani