Hesford, Wendy S.

Just Advocacy? : Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, And The Politics Of Representation

Foreword vii Inderpal Grewal Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1(32) Wendy S. Hesford Wendy Kozol PART ONE Human Rights, Trans/Nationalisms, and Cultures of Security Claiming Afghan Women: The Challenge of Human Rights Discourse for Transnational Feminism 33(23) Amy Farrell Patrice McDermott The Boundaries of Terror: Feminism, Human Rights, and the Politics of Global Crisis 56(19) Leela Fernandes The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post-Imperial Anxiety 75(24) Susan Koshy PART TWO Human Rights and the Evidence of Experience Autobiography's Wounds 99(21) Leigh Gilmore Belated Narrating: ``Grandmothers'' Telling Stories of Forced Sexual Servitude during World War II 120(26) Sidonie Smith Kairos and the Geopolitical Rhetorics of Global Sex Work and Video Advocacy 146(27) Wendy S. Hesford Misrepresentations of Missing Women in the U.S. Press: The Rhetorical Uses of Disgust, Pity, and Compassion 173(22) Arabella Lyon PART THREE Correspondences: Activist and ``Official'' Networks Intensifications: Representing Gender and Sexuality at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS 195(26) Meredith Raimondo Human Rights, Feminism, and Transnational Labor Solidarity 221(22) Mary Margaret Fonow Feminist Strategic Rethinking of Human Rights Discourses in Education 243(23) Jill Blackmore Piercing the Veil 266(25) Madhavi Sunder List of Contributors 291(4) Index 295