Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

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Additional Authors

• Halley, Janet E., 1952-
• Kotiswaran, Prabha
• Rebouché, Rachel
• Shamir, Hila

Description

xxxviii, 599 pages; 23 cm

Summary

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 America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, it complements and expands on the companion volume Governance Feminism: An Introduction. Its chapters argue that governance feminism (GF) is institutionally diverse and globally distributed--emerging from traditional sites of state power as well as from various forms of governance and operating at the grassroots level, in the private sector, in civil society, and in international relations. Providing a clear, cross-cutting, critical lens through which to map developments in feminist governance around the world, Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field makes sense of the costs and benefits of current feminist realities to reimagine feminist futures. The authors argue that governance feminism is institutionally diverse and globally distributed. It emerges from grassroots activism as well as statutes and treaties, crime control, and immanent bureaucracy. Conflicts among feminists-global North and South; left, center, and right- emerge as struggles over governance. This volume collects examples from the United States, Israel, India, and from transnational human rights law. --

Subject

• Feminism > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 and Aya Gruber -- An accidental governance feminist : an interview with Kate Mogulescu / Amy. J. Cohen and 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 and 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 and 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.

Call Number

JFD 19-3977

ISBN

• 9780816698493
• 081669849X
• 9780816698509
• 0816698503

LCCN

2018020501

OCLC

1044772689

Title

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

Publisher

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Halley, Janet E., 1952- editor.

Kotiswaran, Prabha, editor.

Rebouché, Rachel, editor.

Shamir, Hila, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Governance feminism. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019] 9781452958699 (DLC) 2018033962 (OCoLC)1044780882

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3977