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Governance feminism : notes from the field / Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir, editors.

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Publisher's description: Governance 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. Gathering examples from North America, South Ame...

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Other Authors: Halley, Janet E., 1952- (Editor), Kotiswaran, Prabha (Editor), Rebouché, Rachel (Editor), Shamir, Hila (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Feminism > Political aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Feminism wields the sword
  • Feminist governance and international law : from liberal to carceral feminism / Karen Engle
  • The politics of sex, rights, and freedom in contemporary anti-trafficking campaigns / Elizabeth Bernstein
  • The Charybdis of rape myth discourse / Helen Reece
  • Governance feminism in New York's Human Trafficking Intervention Courts / Amy. J. Cohen, Aya Gruber
  • An accidental governance feminist : an interview with Kate Mogulescu / Amy. J. Cohen, Aya Gruber
  • The unintended consequences of domestic violence criminalization : reassessing a governance feminist success story / Leigh Goodmark
  • Part II. The long march through the institutions
  • Governing sex through bureaucracy / Jacob Gersen, Jeannie Suk Gersen
  • Feminism, law, and epidemiology in the AIDS response / Aziza Ahmed
  • Contesting feminism's institutional doubles : troubling the Security Council's women, peace and security agenda / Dianne Otto
  • Sex quotas and burkini bans / Darren Rosenblum
  • Part III. Ideological trajectories for GFeminists
  • From bad to worse via a successful constitutional challenge : the tragedy of feminist engagement with prostitution law reform in Canada / Mariana Valverde
  • "You play, you pay" : feminists and child support enforcement in the United States / Libby Adler, Janet Halley
  • Governance feminism in the French Republic : veils, parité and feminists / Maleiha Malik
  • Gay governance : a queer critique / Aeyal Gross
  • Part IV. Postcolonial feminists in global/local struggle
  • Governance feminism's others : sex workers and India's rape law reforms / Prabha Kotiswaran
  • A cry for madness : governance feminism and neoliberal consonance in Pakistan / Vanja Hamzić
  • Finding and losing feminism in transition : the costs of the continuum hypothesis for women in Colombia / Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra
  • Follow the numbers : global governmentality and the violence against women agenda in occupied Palestine / Rema Hammami
  • Indebted : the cruel optimism of leaning in to empowerment / Vasuki Nesiah.

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