Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism

Human Rights Perspectives
Herausgeber: Satterthwaite, Margaret L; Huckerby, Jayne

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From its inception, the "War on Terror" has been a heavily gendered endeavour. A careful examination of counter-terrorism campaigns outside the current "War on Terror," reveals that such national security efforts also have a complex, but often unexplored, relationship to gender. This edited volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to consider, from a human rights perspective, the many ways in which gender interacts with counter-terrorism and national security efforts by modern states. The book provides a systematic overview of the key intersections between gender and counter-terrorism considering what it means to take a gendered human rights approach to counter-terrorism measures, the patterns that emerge from such an approach, and the human rights tools that can be utilized in this endeavour. The book includes case studies of specific countries including Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the USA, exploring the intersections of gender and counter-terrorism in the specific country context, drawing both country-specific and general conclusions. It goes on to examine the narratives and common assumptions at work in the counter-terrorism context and the gendered impacts of specific policies, analyzing through a gender lens the counter-terrorism efforts associated with the post-9/11 "War on Terror" as well as other campaigns against terrorism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780415781794
• ISBN-10: 0415781795
• Artikelnr.: 36648825

Autorenporträt

Margaret Satterthwaite is Professor of Clinical Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. Her scholarly publications focus on human rights and counter-terrorism, economic and social rights, and empirical methods in human rights. Jayne Huckerby is a human rights consultant with U.N. Women and former Research Director and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. She is a legal expert on gender and constitutional reform, gender and counter-terrorism, anti-trafficking, gender budget initiatives, and violence against women.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Jayne C. Huckerby Part 1:
Gendered Erasures in Counter-Terrorism 1. Gendered Erasure in The Global
"War on Terror": An Unmasked Interrogation, Ramzi Kassem 2. Gender and
Counter-Radicalization: Women and Emerging Counter-Terror Measures,
Katherine E. Brown 3. Gender, Terror, And Counter-Terrorism: Muslim
American Youth Activism and Disappeared Rights, Sunaina Maira 4. Missing
Indicators, Disappearing Gender: Measuring USAID's Programming to Violent
Counter Extremism, Margaret L. Satterthwaite Part 2: Gender Narratives in
Counter-Terrorism 5. Unpacking The Trafficking-Terror Nexus, Jayne C.
Huckerby 6. Feminism As Counter-Terrorism: The Seduction of Power, Vasuki
Nesiah 7. Muslim Fundamentalism" And Human Rights In An Age Of Terror And
Empire, Amna Akbar and Rupal Oza Part 3: Toward a Gender Account of
Counter-Terrorism 8. Soft Measures, Real Harm: Somalia and The U.S. "War On
Terror", Lama Fakih 9. When Are Women's Rights Human Rights in Pakistan?,
Amina Jamal 10. Close Encounters of the Female Kind in the Land of
Counter-Terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin 11. Equal Opportunity Terrorism:
Women Terrorists in Comparative Perspective, Margaret Gonzalez-Perez