Just advocacy? : women's human rights, transnational feminisms, and the politics of representation / edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Wendy Kozol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hesford, Wendy S.

Kozol, Wendy, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights.

Human rights.

Feminism.

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

xi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction / Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol

Claiming Afghan women : the challenge of human rights discourse for transnational feminism / Amy Farrell and Patrice McDermott

The boundaries of terror : feminism, human rights, and the politics of global crisis / Leela Fernandes

The campaign for fair trials abroad : long-distance nationalism and post-imperial anxiety / Susan Koshy

Autobiography's wounds / Leigh Gilmore

Belated narrating : "grandmothers" telling stories of forced sexual servitude during World War II / Sidonie Smith

Kairos and the geopolitical rhetorics of global sex work and video advocacy / Wendy S. Hesford

Misrepresentations of missing women in the U.S. press : the rhetorical uses of disgust, pity, and compassion / Arabella Lyon

Intensifications : representing gender and sexuality at the UN General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS / Meredith Raimondo

Human rights, feminism, and transnational labor solidarity / Mary Margaret Fonow

Feminist strategic rethinking of human rights discourses in education / Jill Blackmore

Piercing the veil / Madhavi Sunder.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813535883

0813535891

OCLC:

56517431