Abu-Lughod / Hammami / Shalhoub-Kevorkian The Cunning of Gender Violence

Geopolitics and Feminism
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2454-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project to combat gender-based violence and violence against women has folded itself into contemporary world affairs in ways that that harm the very people it seeks to protect.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abu-Lughod, Lila

Hammami, Rema

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Circuits of Power in GBVAW Governance / Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 1
I. Securitization
1. Lawfare, CVE, and International Conflict Feminism / Vasuki Nesiah 55
2. Securofeminism: Embracing a Phantom / Lila Abu-Lughod 88
3. The Role of “Honor Killings” in the Muslim Ban / Leti Volpp 122
4. Because Religion: Does Something Called “Religion” Cause Gender-Based Violence? / Janet R. Jakobsen 151
II. States of Violence, Unruly Subjects
5. GBV and Postcolonial India: Transnational Media, Hindutva, and Muslim Racializations / Inderpal Grewal 177
6. The Politics of Legislating “Honor Crime” in Contemporary Pakistan / Shenila Khoja-Moolji 209
7. State Criminality and Gender-Based Violence: Palestinian Schoolgirls between Books and Rifles / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 233
8. Power, Subjectivity, and Sexuality in Iranian Political Prisons / Shahla Talebi 259
III. Civilizing Interventions: Development and Humanitarianism
9. Child Marriage in the Feminist Imagination / Dina M. Siddiqi 293
10. Catastrophic Aid: GBV Humanitarianism in Gaza / Rema Hammami 324
11. What Counts as Violence? Transgender Refugees, Torture, and Sanctions / Sima Shakhsari 361
IV. Media Frames
12. Weaponized Bodies: Female Genital Mutilation and Immigrant Exclusion / Rafia Zakaria 391
13. Breaking the Frame: The Power of Media Narratives and the Question of Agency / Samira Shackle 405
14. Dressed Up, Stripped Down: Media Depictions of Conflict Rape / Nina Berman 422
Contributors 439
Index 445

Über Autor(innen)

Lila Abu-Lughod is Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.

Rema Hammami is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University.

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at The Hebrew University and Chair in Global Law at Queen Mary University of London.