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Faye V. Harrison's collection of essays focuses on the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality that exert a huge influence on human rights conflicts around the world. Using compelling examples, the authors illustrate the central premise that understanding the dynamics of these intersections has important implications for effectively confronting oppression and constructing positive change. Investigating conflicts in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, they also reflect upon political concerns and anxieties worldwide that have grown out of the catasrophe of 9/11. The contributors comprise an internationally diverse group of anthropologists and human rights activists concerned with global, culturally diverse, gendered experiences. This anthology will be valuable to instructors, human rights workers, and applied professionals in anthropology, gender studies, ethnic studies, and international human rights.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Global Perspectives on Human Rights and Interlocking Inequalities of Race, Gender and Related Dimensions of Power
2 PART I. A Post-Durban and Post-September 11 View From the South
3 Ch. 1: Finding Strategic Identities in an Unequal World: Feminist Reflections From India
4 PART II: Gendered Communities in Crisis and Struggle
5 Ch. 2: Metaphors of Race and Caste-Based Discriminations Against Dalits and Dalit Women in India
6 Ch. 3: Margins of Democracy: Aboriginal Australians and Inequality
7 Ch. 4: Desperately Seeking Justice: Women of Color in Springfield, Missouri and Their Quest for Civil and Human Rights
8 Ch. 5: Welfare Reform, Racism, and Single Motherhood in the Americas
9 PART III: Sexual Matters in Work, Health, and Ethnonational Politics
10 Ch. 6: Structurally Adjusted Intercourse: Exoticized Sex Workers and Anthropological Agency
11 Ch. 7: Intersections of Gender, Race, and HIV/AIDS in Africa
12 Ch. 8: The Role of Zanzibari Women in the Human Rights Conflict with Tanzania over Sovereignty
13 PART IV: New Diasporas: Refugees and Immigrants
14 Ch. 9: The Second Coming: African Women as a Racialized Transmigrant Group in a Canadian Context
15 Ch. 10: Weaving Identities: Refugees, Immigrants, and Local People in a European World of Differences
16 Ch. 11: My Country in Translation
17 PART V: Negotiating Diversity & the War on Terrorism
18 Ch. 12: Diversity Training Doesn't Get to the Heart of the Matter
19 Ch. 13: What Democracy Looks Like: The Politics of a Women-Centered, Anti-Racist Human Rights Coalition
20 Ch. 14: Confronting Hegemony, Resisting Occupation

Product details

Published Sep 08 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 296
ISBN 9780759104822
Imprint AltaMira Press
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Faye V. Harrison

Contributor

Jan Delacourt

Contributor

Fadwa El Guindi

Contributor

Cheryl Fischer

Contributor

Diana Hayman

Contributor

Camille Hazeur

Contributor

Devaki Jain

Contributor

Fatma Napoli

Contributor

Esther I. Njiro

Contributor

Helen Safa

Contributor

Mohamed Saleh

Contributor

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