Table Of ContentViolence and Gender in the
Globalized World
Global connections
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Violence and Gender in the
Globalized World
the intimate and the extimate
2nd edition
Edited by
Sanja bahun
University of Essex, UK
V.G. julie rajan
Rutgers University, USA
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Violence and gender in the globalized world : the intimate and the extimate / [edited] by
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pages cm. – (Global connections)
revised edition of Violence and gender in the globalized world published in 2008.
includes bibliographical references and index.
iSbn 978-1-4724-5374-7 (hardback) – iSbn 978-1-4724-5375-4 (ebook) –
iSbn 978-1-4724-5376-1 (epub) 1. Women—Violence against—cross-cultural studies.
2. Violence—Social aspects—cross-cultural studies. i. bahun, Sanja. ii. rajan, V. G.
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword by Charlotte Bunch xiii
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction On Violence, Gender, and Global Connections (Again) 1
Sanja Bahun and V.G. Julie Rajan
Part I revealIng the gaPs
1 Indigenous Women’s Anti-Violence Strategies 13
Yifat Susskind
2 Going beyond the Universal-versus-Relativist Rights Discourse
and Practice: The Case of Malaysia 27
Sharon A. Bong
3 Women, Violence, and the Islamic State: Resurrecting the
Caliphate through Femicide in Iraq and Syria 45
V.G. Julie Rajan
Part II enclosures and exPosures
4 People behind Walls, Women behind Walls: Reading Violence
against Women in Palestine 93
Rose Shomali Musleh
5 Algerian Adolescents Caught in the Crossfire 109
Meredeth Turshen
6 The After-War War of Genders: Misogyny, Feminist Ghettoization,
and the Discourse of Responsibility in Post-Yugoslav Societies 127
Svetlana Slapšak
vi Violence and Gender in the Globalized World
7 A Call for a Nuanced Constitutional Jurisprudence: South Africa,
Ubuntu, Dignity, and Reconciliation 145
Drucilla Cornell, in collaboration with Karin Van Marle
Part III Bordered suBjectIvItIes, gloBal connectIons
8 Building Accountability for Gender-based Violence: International
Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts 163
Jennifer M. Green
9 The Traffic in “Trafficked Filipinas”: Sexual Harm, Violence,
and Victims’ Voices 187
Sealing Cheng
10 Victims, Villains, Saviors: On the Discursive Constructions of
Trafficking in Women 205
Loretta Ihme
11 She-hadis? Online Radicalization and the Recruitment of Women 225
Mia M. Bloom
Part Iv aesthetIc and gendered transformatIons
12 Over Her Dead Body: Talking About Violence against Women in
Recent Chicana Writing 255
Deborah L. Madsen
13 Theater as a Crusade against Gender Violence: The Case of V-Day
(Revisited) 271
Marta Fernández-Morales
Index 291
List of Figures
5.1 La mixité at a rebuilt primary school in Haï Raïs that Islamists had
destroyed in 1997 122
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Notes on Contributors
Sanja Bahun, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and
Theatre Studies, University of Essex, UK. Her areas of expertise are women’s and
gender studies, psychoanalysis, and international modernism. She is the author of
Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning (2013), the co-editor of
The Avant-garde and the Margin: New Territories of Modernism (2006), Violence
and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate (2008), From
Word to Canvas: Appropriations of Myth in Women’s Aesthetic Production (2009),
Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras (2011),
Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions (2012), Myth, Literature,
and the Unconscious (2013), and Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917–1989: Re-Visions (2014). Bahun is the
Co-Convener of Transitional Justice Network at the University of Essex and Chair
of Gender and Children Research Area of ETJN. She serves on the Executive
Committee of the British Comparative Literature Association.
Mia M. Bloom, PhD, is Professor of Security Studies at the Center for Terrorism
and Security Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell, U.S.A. She is the author
of Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (2005) and Bombshell: Women and
Terror (2011), as well as co-editor of Living Together after Ethnic Killing (2007). She
is a former term member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and has
held research or teaching appointments at Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill
Universities. Bloom has a PhD in political science from Columbia University, a
Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, and a Bachelors degree from
McGill University in Russian and Middle East Studies; and she speaks nine languages.
She regularly appears on CNN, Fox News, CSPAN, and NBC Nightly News.
Sharon A. Bong, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences,
Monash University, Malaysia. Her research interests include feminist standpoint
epistemologies; women’s human rights and sexualities in religions; GLBTIQ (gay,
lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, intersex, queer or questioning) persons and religiosity.
She has authored The Tension Between Women’s Rights and Religions: The Case of
Malaysia (2006) and has co-edited Re-imagining Marriage and Family in Asia: Asian
Christian Women’s Perspectives (2008). She is also the author of numerous journal
articles and book chapters on the subject of gender and religion.
Charlotte Bunch is Founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Center for Women’s
Global Leadership, Rutgers University, U.S.A. She has been an activist, writer, and
