Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and The Extimate

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Contents: Preface, Charlotte Bunch Introduction: on violence and gender, and global connections, Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and V.G. Julie Rajan Part I Revealing the Gaps: Indigenous women's anti-violence strategies, Yifat Susskind Going beyond the universal-versus-relativist rights discourse and practice: the case of Malaysia, Sharon A. Bong Microcredit and violence: a snapshot of Kerala, India, Valsala Kumari. Part II Enclosures and Exposures: People behind walls, women behind walls: reading violence against women in Palestine, Rose Shomali Musleh Algerian adolescents caught in the crossfire, Meredith Turshen The after-war war of genders: misogyny, feminist ghettoization, and the discourse of responsibility in post-Yugoslav societies, Svetlana Slapsak A call for a nuanced constitutional jurisprudence South Africa, Ubuntu, dignity, and reconciliation, Drucilla Cornell in collaboration with Karin Van Marle. Part III Bordered Subjectivities, Global Connections: Introduction Litigating international human rights claims of sexual violence in the US courts: a brief overview of cases brought under the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Protection Act, Jennifer M. Green The traffic in 'trafficked Filipinas': sexual harm, violence, and victims voices, Sealing Cheng Victims, villains, saviors: on the discursive constructions of trafficking in women, Loretta Ihme Ethnicity and gender in the politics of Roma identity in the post-communist countries, Angela Kocze. Part IV Aesthetics and Gendered Transformations: Introduction Over her dead body: talking about violence against women in recent Chicana writing, Deborah L. Madsen When theater becomes a crusade against violence: the case of V-Day, Marta Fernandez-Morales Index.