AltaMira Press
Pages: 296
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7591-0481-5 • Hardback • September 2005 • $132.00 • (£102.00)
978-0-7591-0482-2 • Paperback • September 2005 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
Faye V. Harrison is Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and chair of the IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women.
1 Introduction: Global Perspectives on Human Rights and Interlocking Inequalities of Race, Gender and Related Dimensions of Power
2 PART I. A Post-Durban and Post-September 11 View From the South
3 Ch. 1: Finding Strategic Identities in an Unequal World: Feminist Reflections From India
4 PART II: Gendered Communities in Crisis and Struggle
5 Ch. 2: Metaphors of Race and Caste-Based Discriminations Against Dalits and Dalit Women in India
6 Ch. 3: Margins of Democracy: Aboriginal Australians and Inequality
7 Ch. 4: Desperately Seeking Justice: Women of Color in Springfield, Missouri and Their Quest for Civil and Human Rights
8 Ch. 5: Welfare Reform, Racism, and Single Motherhood in the Americas
9 PART III: Sexual Matters in Work, Health, and Ethnonational Politics
10 Ch. 6: Structurally Adjusted Intercourse: Exoticized Sex Workers and Anthropological Agency
11 Ch. 7: Intersections of Gender, Race, and HIV/AIDS in Africa
12 Ch. 8: The Role of Zanzibari Women in the Human Rights Conflict with Tanzania over Sovereignty
13 PART IV: New Diasporas: Refugees and Immigrants
14 Ch. 9: The Second Coming: African Women as a Racialized Transmigrant Group in a Canadian Context
15 Ch. 10: Weaving Identities: Refugees, Immigrants, and Local People in a European World of Differences
16 Ch. 11: My Country in Translation
17 PART V: Negotiating Diversity & the War on Terrorism
18 Ch. 12: Diversity Training Doesn't Get to the Heart of the Matter
19 Ch. 13: What Democracy Looks Like: The Politics of a Women-Centered, Anti-Racist Human Rights Coalition
20 Ch. 14: Confronting Hegemony, Resisting Occupation