Just advocacy? : women's human rights, transnational feminisms, and the politics of representation

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Just advocacy? : women's human rights, transnational feminisms, and the politics of representation

edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Wendy Kozol

Rutgers University Press, c2005

  • : hardcover
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

: hardcover ISBN 9780813535883

内容説明

In the continuing estrangement between the West and the Muslim Middle East, human rights are becoming increasingly enmeshed with territorial concerns. Marked by both substance and rhetoric, they are situated at the heart of many foreign policy decisions and doctrines of social change, and often serve as a justification for aggressive actions. In humanitarian and political debates about the topic, women and children are frequently considered first. Since the 1990s, human rights have become the most legitimate and legitimizing juridical and cultural claim made on a woman's behalf. But what are the consequences of equating women's rights with human rights? As the eleven essays in this volume show, the impact is often contradictory. Bringing together some of the most respected scholars in the field, including Inderpal Grewal, Leela Fernandes, Leigh Gilmore, Susan Koshy, Patrice McDermott, and Sidonie Smith, Just Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked ways that women and children are further subjugated when political or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray the individuals that are helping them as paternal saviors. Drawn from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, Just Advocacy? promises to advance a more nuanced and politically responsible understanding of human rights for both scholars and activists.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813535890

内容説明

In the continuing estrangement between the West and the Muslim Middle East, human rights are becoming increasingly enmeshed with territorial concerns. Marked by both substance and rhetoric, they are situated at the heart of many foreign policy decisions and doctrines of social change, and often serve as a justification for aggressive actions. In humanitarian and political debates about the topic, women and children are frequently considered first. Since the 1990s, human rights have become the most legitimate and legitimizing juridical and cultural claim made on a woman's behalf. But what are the consequences of equating women's rights with human rights? As the eleven essays in this volume show, the impact is often contradictory. Bringing together some of the most respected scholars in the field, including Inderpal Grewal, Leela Fernandes, Leigh Gilmore, Susan Koshy, Patrice McDermott, and Sidonie Smith, Just Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked ways that women and children are further subjugated when political or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray the individuals that are helping them as paternal saviors. Drawn from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, Just Advocacy? promises to advance a more nuanced and politically responsible understanding of human rights for both scholars and activists.

目次

Foreword by Inderpal Grewal Acknowledgments Introduction by Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol Part One: Human Rights, Trans/Nationalisms, and Cultures of Security 1. Claiming Afghan Women: The Challenge of Human Rights Discourse for Transnational Feminism by Amy Farrell and Patrice McDermott 2. The Boundaries of Terror: Feminism, Human Rights, and the Politics of Global Crisis by Leela Fernandes 3. The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post-Imperial Anxiety by Susan Koshy Part Two: Human Rights and the Evidence of Experience 4. Autobiography's Wounds by Leigh Gilmore 5. Belated Narrating: "Grandmothers" Telling Stores of Forced Sexual Servitude during World War II by Sidonie Smith 6. Kairos and the Geopolitical Rhetorics of Global Sex Work and Video Advocacy by Wendy S. Hesford 7. Misrepresentations of Missing Women in the U.S. Press: The Rhetorical Uses of Disgust, Pity, and Compassion by Arabella Lyon Part Three: Correspondences: Activist and "Official" Networks 8. Intensifications: Representing Gender and Sexuality at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS by Meredith Raimondo 9. Human Rights, Feminism, and Transnational Labor Solidarity by Mary Margaret Fonow 10. Feminist Strategic Rethinking of Human Rights Discourses in Education by Jill Blackmore 11. Piercing the Veil by Mahavi Sunder List of Contributors Index

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