Revised edition of Violence and gender in the globalized world published in 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Indigenous women's anti-violence strategies / Yifat Susskind -- Going beyond the universal-versus-relativist rights discourse and practice: the case of Malaysia / Sharon A. Bong -- Women, violence, and the Islamic State: resurrecting the caliphate through femicide in Iraq and Syria / V.G. Julie Rajan -- People behind walls, women behind walls: reading violence against women in Palestine / Rose Shomali Musleh -- Algerian adolescents caught in the crossfire / Meredeth Turshen -- The after-war war of genders: misogyny, feminist ghettoization, and the discourse of responsibility in post-Yugoslav societies / Svetlana Slaps��ak -- A call for nuanced constitutional jurisprudence: South Africa, Ubuntu, dignity and reconciliation / Drucilla Cornell, in collaboration with Karin Van Marle -- Building accountability for gender-based violence: international human rights litigation in U.S. courts / Jennifer M. Green -- The traffic in "trafficked Filipinas": sexual harm, violence, and victims' voices / Sealing Cheng -- Victims, villains, saviors: on the discursive constructions of trafficking in women / Loretta Ihme --She-hadis?: online radicalization and the recruitment of women / Mia M. Bloom -- Over her dead body: talking about violence against women in recent Chicana writing / Deborah L. Madsen -- Theater as a crusade against gender violence: the case of V-Day(revisited) / Marta Ferna��ndez-Morales.
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