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Confronting Global Gender Justice 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 parts on Complicating the 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 understand- ings 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 non-governmental organization activities, grassroots and customary practices, and narrative and photographic representations. This book is a valuable resource for both undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines such as Gender or Women’s Studies, Human Rights, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology, as well as researchers and professionals working in related fields. Debra Bergoffen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University. Paula Ruth Gilbert is Professor of French, Canadian, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University. Tamara Harvey is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. 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. Confronting Global Gender Justice Women’s lives, human rights Edited by Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Tamara Harvey, and Connie L. McNeely First published 2011 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2011. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. © 2011 Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Tamara Harvey, and Connie L. McNeely; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Tamara Harvey, and Connie L. McNeely to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Confronting global gender justice : women’s lives, human rights / Debra Bergoffen{...}[et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Women’s rights. 2. Human rights. 3. Women—Social conditions. 4. Feminism. I. Bergoffen, Debra B. HQ1236.C626 2010 305.42—dc22 2010021197 ISBN 0-203-83859-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN: 978–0–415–78078–0 (hbk) ISBN: 978–0–415–78079–7 (pbk) ISBN: 978–0–203–83859–4 (ebk) For Lucinda Peach Contents Acknowledgments xi Notes on contributors xiii Introduction: women’s lives, human rights 1 DEBRA BERGOFFEN, PAULA RUTH GILBERT, AND TAMARA HARVEY PART I Complicating the discourses of victimhood 19 1 Women and the genocidal rape of women: the gender dynamics of gendered war crimes 21 LAURA SJOBERG 2 Human tracffiking: why i s i t such an important women’s i s sue?35 LOUISE SHELLEY 3 Transforming the representable : As ian women in ant i - trafficking discourse 50 DONNA K. MAEDA 4 Sin, sa lvat ion, or s tarvat ion? The problemat ic ro le of re l ig ious moral i ty in U.S. ant i - sexc kt irnagffi pol icy 66 LUCINDA PEACH PART II Interrogating practices of representation 83 5 How not to give rape political sicgannifice 85 LOUISE DU TOIT viii Contents 6 Human trafficking: a photographic essay 99 KAY CHERNUSH 7 Marjorie Agosín’s poetics of memory: human rights, feminism, and literary forms 112 RICARDO F. VIVANCOS PÉREZ 8 Digital storytelling for gender justice: exploring the challenges of participation and the limits of polyvocality 126 AMY L. HILL PART III Mobilizing strategies of engagement 141 9 “Sweet electrical greetings”: women, HIV, and the evolution of an intervention project in Papua New Guinea 143 HOLLY WARDLOW WITH MARY MICHAEL TAMIA 10 Economic empowerment of women as a global project: economic rights in the neo-liberal era 158 NITZA BERKOVITCH AND ADRIANA KEMP 11 Algerian women in movement: three waves of feminist activism 180 VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM 12 Using law and education to make human rights real in women’s real lives 200 NANCY CHI CANTALUPO PART IV Crossing legal landscapes 213 13 Seduced by information, contaminated by power: women’s rights as a global panopticon 215 SAIDA HODŽIĆ 14 Human rights of women and girls with disabilities in developing countries 231 AMY T. WILSON 15 Gender and customary mechanisms of justice in Uganda 245 JOANNA R. QUINN Cont en t six 16 Policing bodies and borders: women, prostitution, and the differential regulation of U.S. immigration policy 263 DEIRDRE M. MOLONEY 17 The inst i tut ional izat ion of domest ic v io lence against women in the United States 277 JULIE WALTERS PART V Confronting global gender justice 295 18 Configuring feminisms, transforming paradigms: reflections from Kum-Kum Bhavnani—scholar, activist, filmmaker 297 KUM-KUM BHAVNANI AND CONNIE L. MCNEELY Index 316
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