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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global SouthGovernance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically describe and assess contemporary feminist engagements with state and state-like power. Ga
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
Janet Halley
Part I. Feminism Wields the Sword
1. Feminist Governance and International Law: From Liberal to Carceral Feminism
Karen Engle
2. The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns
Elizabeth Bernstein
3. The Charybdis of Rape Myth Discourse
Helen Reece
4. Governance Feminism in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
Amy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber
5. An Accidental Governance Feminist: An Interview with Kate Mogulescu
Amy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber
6. The Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Criminalization: Reassessing a Governance Feminist Success Story
Leigh Goodmark
Part II. The Long March through the Institutions
7. Governing Sex through Bureaucracy
Jacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk Gersen
8. Feminism, Law, and Epidemiology in the AIDS Response
Aziza Ahmed
9. Contesting Feminism’s Institutional Doubles: Troubling the Security Council’s Women Peace and Security Agenda
Dianne Otto
10. Sex Quotas and Burkini Bans
Darren Rosenblum
Part III: Ideological Trajectories for GFeminists
11. From Bad to Worse Via a Successful Constitutional Challenge: The Tragedy of Feminist Engagement with Prostitution Law Reform in Canada
Mariana Valverde
12. “You Play, You Pay”: Feminists and Child Support Enforcement in the United States
Libby Adler and Janet Halley
13. Governance Feminism in the French Republic: Veils, Parité, and Feminists
Maleiha Malik
14. Gay Governance: A Queer Critique
Aeyal Gross
Part IV. Postcolonial Feminists in Global/Local Struggle
15. Governance Feminism’s Others: Sex Workers and India’s Rape Law Reforms
Prabha Kotiswaran
16. A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan
Vanja Hamzić
17. Finding and Losing Feminism in Transition: The Costs of the Continuum Hypothesis for Women in Colombia
Isabel Cristina Jaramillo-Sierra
18. Follow the Numbers: Global Governmentality and the Violence against Women Agenda in Occupied Palestine
Rema Hammami
19. Indebted: The Cruel Optimism of Leaning-in to Empowerment
Vasuki Nesiah
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
