Confronting global gender justice : women's lives, human rights

Bergoffen, Debra B. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 9780415780797 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780415780780 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0415780780 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0415780799 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xviii, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: women's lives, human rights / Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, and Tamara Harvey -- Part I: complicating the discourses of victimhood -- Women and the genocidal rape of women : the gender dynamics of gendered war crimes / Laura Sjoberg -- Human trafficking : why is it such an important women's issue? / Louise Shelly -- Transforming the representable : Asian women in anti-trafficking discourse / Donna K. Maeda -- Sin, salvation, or starvation? the problematic role of religious morality in US anti-sex trafficking policy / Lucinda Peach -- Part II: interrogating practices of representation -- How not to give rape political significance / Louise du Toit -- Human trafficking : a photographic essay / Kay Chernush -- Marjorie Agosin's poetics of memory : human rights, feminism, and literary forms / Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez -- Digital storytelling for gender justice : exploring the challenges of participation and the limits of polyvocality / Amy L. Hill -- Part III: Mobilizing strategies of engagement -- "Sweet electrical greetings" : women, HIV, and the evolution of an intervention project in Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow with Mary Michael Tamia -- Economic empowerment of women as a global project : economic rights in the neo-liberal era / Nitza Berkovitch and Adriana Kemp -- Algerian women in movement : three waves of feminist activism / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Using law and education to make human rights real in women's real lives / Nancy Chi Cantalupo -- Part IV: crossing legal landscapes -- Seduced by information, contaminated by power : women's rights as a global panopticon / Saida Hodz̆ić -- Human rights of women and girls with disabilities in developing countries / Amy T. Wilson -- Gender and customary mechanisms of justice in Uganda / Joanna R. Quinn -- Policing bodies and borders : women, prostitution, and the differential regulation of US immigration policy / Deirdre M. Moloney -- The institutionalization of domestic violence against women in the United States / Julie Walters -- Part V: confronting global gender justice -- Configuring feminisms, transforming paradigms : reflections from Kum-Kum Bhavnani - scholar, activist, filmmaker / Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Connie L. McNeely.