Title: Just advocacy? : women's human rights, transnational feminisms, and the politics of representation /
Authors: Hesford, Wendy S.; Kozol, Wendy, 1958-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Women's rights.; Human rights.; Feminism.; Women Social conditions.
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.