Confronting Global Gender Justice

Women's Lives, Human Rights
Herausgeber: Bergoffen, Debra; McNeely, Connie L; Harvey, Tamara; Gilbert, Paula Ruth

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays that addresses 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.

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Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights examines the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, artists, and educators engaged in establishing women's rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women's lives. Issues addressed include: trafficking, AIDS, immigration, war-time violence, and legal battles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780415780780
• ISBN-10: 0415780780
• Artikelnr.: 31387918

Autorenporträt

Debra Bergoffen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University. Her book The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities (1997), and her most recent articles, including "Exploiting the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body," evidence her ongoing concern with feminist theory, women's rights and human rights. Paula Ruth Gilbert is Professor of French, Canadian, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University. Her research covers: nineteenth-century French Studies; Quebec Studies; violence and gender and violent women; narrative, gender, and human rights. Her most recent book is Violence and the Female Imagination (2006). Tamara Harvey is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. She is author of Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700 (2008), and co-editor with Greg O'Brien of George Washington's South (2003). Her research focuses on women and early America, with an emphasis on hemispheric studies. Connie L. McNeely received the Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and is currently on the faculty of the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Her books have included Constructing the Nation-State (1995) and the edited volume Public Rights, Public Rules (1998). Her current research and most recent publications address various aspects of culture, politics, social theory, and inequality.

Inhaltsangabe

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