The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism 9781478024545

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project to combat gender-based violence and viol

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The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism
 9781478024545

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Circuits of Power in GBVAW Governance
I. Securitization
1. Lawfare, CVE, and International Conflict Feminism
2. Securofeminism
3. The Role of “Honor Killings” in the Muslim Ban
4. Because Religion
II. States of Violence, Unruly Subjects
5. GBV and Postcolonial India
6. The Politics of Legislating “Honor Crime” in Contemporary Pakistan
7. State Criminality and Gender-Based Violence
8. Power, Subjectivity, and Sexuality in Iranian Political Prisons
III. Civilizing Interventions: Development and Humanitarianism
9. Child Marriage in the Feminist Imagination
10. Catastrophic Aid
11. What Counts as Violence?
IV. Media Frames
12. Weaponized Bodies
13. Breaking the Frame
14. Dressed Up, Stripped Down
Contributors
Index

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