The Cunning of Gender Violence by Lila Abu-Lughod
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.
“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 mediaCompellingly 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 *
“Those committed to an anti-Muslim agenda appoint themselves as modern, humanitarian, democratic, and feminist, a status achieved against a Third World constituted as premodern, illiberal, Muslim, and uniquely given to gender-based violence. It is a major contribution of this book to show how global racial governance is achieved through the idea of gender-based violence as a defining feature of Third World cultures and communities.” -- Sherene H. Razack, author of * Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism *
“Those committed to an anti-Muslim agenda appoint themselves as modern, humanitarian, democratic, and feminist, a status achieved against a Third World constituted as premodern, illiberal, Muslim, and uniquely given to gender-based violence. It is a major contribution of this book to show how global racial governance is achieved through the idea of gender-based violence as a defining feature of Third World cultures and communities.” -- Sherene H. Razack, author of * Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism *
"A remarkable piece of work within the realm of geopolitical feminism. ... It stands out for its sharp acumen and the detailed analysis of scholars who have dedicated themselves to researching and confronting gender-based violence against women in various global contexts."
-- Yanyan Zhu * Affilia *
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781478020431 |
| ISBN 10 | 1478020431 |
| Title | The Cunning of Gender Violence |
| Author | Lila Abu-Lughod |
| Series | Next Wave: New Directions In Women's Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2023-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
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