Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics. The volume hosts methodologically and disciplinarily diverse contributions from around the world, discussing various contexts including Chechnya, Germany, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Palestine, the former Yugoslavia, Syria, South Africa, the United States, and the Internet. Bringing together scholars’ and activists’ historicized and site-specific perspectives, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice concerning violence, gender, and agency. In this revised and updated edition, the scope of inquiry is expanded to incorporate phenomena that have recently come to the forefront of public and scholarly scrutiny, such as Internet-based discourses of violence, female suicide bombers, and the Islamic State’s violence against women. At the same time, new data and developments are brought to bear on earlier discussions of violence against women across the globe in order to bring them fully up to date. With an international team of contributors, comprising eminent scholars, activists and policy-makers, this volume will be of interest to anyone conducting research in the areas of gender and sexuality, human rights, cultural studies, law, sociology, political science, history, post-colonialism and colonialism, anthropology, philosophy and religion.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Foreword by Charlotte Bunch, Acknowledgements, Introduction On Violence, Gender, and Global Connections (Again), Part I. Revealing the Gaps, 1. Indigenous Women’s Anti-Violence Strategies, 2. Going beyond the Universal-versus-Relativist Rights Discourse and Practice: The Case of Malaysia, 3. Women, Violence, and the Islamic State: Resurrecting the Caliphate through Femicide in Iraq and Syria, Part II. Enclosures and Exposures, 4. People behind Walls, Women behind Walls: Reading Violence against Women in Palestine, 5. Algerian Adolescents Caught in the Crossfire, 6. The After-War War of Genders: Misogyny, Feminist Ghettoization, and the Discourse of Responsibility in Post-Yugoslav Societies, 7. A Call for a Nuanced Constitutional Jurisprudence: South Africa, Ubuntu, Dignity, and Reconciliation, Part III. Bordered Subjectivities, Global Connections, 8. Building Accountability for Gender-based Violence: International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts, 9. The Traffic in “Trafficked Filipinas”: Sexual Harm, Violence, and Victims’ Voices, 10. Victims, Villains, Saviors: On the Discursive Constructions of Trafficking in Women, 11. She-hadis? Online Radicalization and the Recruitment of Women, Part IV. Aesthetic And Gendered Transformations, 12. Over Her Dead Body: Talking About Violence against Women in Recent Chicana Writing, 13. Theater as a Crusade against Gender Violence: The Case of V-Day (Revisited), Index