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Book SynopsisJust 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 saviours. It proposes a more nuanced and politically responsible understanding of human rights.
Trade ReviewInterdisciplinary in design and transnational in scope, this book brings together some of the best new work in feminist scholarship on human rights. -- Patrice Petro * professor and director of the Center for International Education at the Universi *
Not a moment too soon,
Just Advocacy? arrives to guide us in our thinking about international human rights and the gender politics of representation. Presenting a timely critique of the ways in which global feminism constructs gendered subjects of aid, the editors and contributors to this volume challenge us to recognize the legacies of colonialism in the workings of governmental and non-governmental organizations. -- Caren Kaplan * associate professor of women & gender studies at the University of California at *
Table of ContentsForeword 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 ContributorsIndex
