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ISBN-10: 1478020431
ISBN-13: 9781478020431
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 08/02/2023
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 1.00" H

The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism

Editor: Rema Hammami
Editor: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

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Overview

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violence against women and gender-based violence constitutes a highly visible and powerful agenda enshrined in international governance and law and embedded in state violence and global securitization. Case studies on Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Turkey as well as on UN and US policies trace the silences and omissions, along with the experiences of those subjected to violence, to question the rhetoric that claims the agenda as a “feminist success story.” Because religion and racialized ethnicity, particularly “the Muslim question,” run so deeply through the institutional structures of the agenda, the contributions explore ways it may be affirming or enabling rationales and systems of power, including civilizational hierarchies, that harm the very people it seeks to protect.

Contributors. Lila Abu-Lughod, Nina Berman, Inderpal Grewal, Rema Hammami, Janet R. Jakobsen, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Vasuki Nesiah, Samira Shackle, Sima Shakhsari, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Dina M Siddiqi, Shahla Talebi, Leti Volpp, Rafia Zakaria

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"The Cunning of Gender Violence is a riveting and much-needed interdisciplinary collection that aims both to understand and radically shift the securitized, racialized, and imperial approaches to gender violence that dominate law, policy, and the media. Compellingly calling on feminists to recognize the Faustian bargain they have struck by perpetuating these dominant approaches, the book brings to the fore lives and experiences that have often been relegated to the margins of global feminist attention, even as they are at the center of multiple forms of quotidian global and state violence."–Karen Engle, author of "author of The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law"
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ISBN-10: 1478020431
ISBN-13: 9781478020431
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 08/02/2023
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 1.00" H
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