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Interventions : activists and academics respond to violence / edited by Elizabeth A. Castelli and Janet R. Jakobsen.

Contributor(s): Castelli, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), 1958- | Jakobsen, Janet R, 1960-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 247 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 140396582X (pbk.); 9781403965820 (pbk.); 1403965811; 9781403965813Subject(s): Violence -- Congresses | Violence -- Prevention -- Congresses | Feminist theory -- CongressesDDC classification: 303.6/082 LOC classification: HM1116 | .I67 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Feminists responding to violence: theories, vocabularies, and strategies / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Feminism in a time of violence / Karen Beckman -- The wrong victims: terrorism, trauma, and symbolic violence / Sally Bachner -- Definitions and injuries of violence / Meredeth Turshen -- Filling the sight by force: a meditation on the violence of the vernacular / Laura Wexler -- Rethinking response to violence, rethinking the safety of "home" / Andrea Smith -- Violence of protection / Minoo Moallem -- Is secularism less violent than religion? / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Biblical promise and threat in U.S. imperialist rhetoric, before and after 9/11 / Erin Runions -- The best defense? The problem with Bush's "preemptive" war strategy / Neta C. Crawford -- The erosion of democracy in advancing the Bush admistration's Iraq agenda: government lies and misinformation and media complicity / Jody Williams -- Naming enmity: the case of Israel/Palestine / Gil Anidjar -- Toward a Cherokee theory of violence / Laura E. Donaldson -- Dangerous crossings: violence at the borders / Lois Ann Lorentzen -- Domestic terror / Catherine Lutz and Jon Elliston -- Testifying to violence: Gujarat as a state of exception / Anupama Rao -- Challenging what we mean by conflict prevention: the experience of East Timor / Gwi-Yeop Son -- Sisterhood after terrorism: Filipino ecumenical women and the U.S. wars / Kathryn Poethig -- The female body as a site of attack: will the "real" Muslim woman's body please reveal itself? / Fawzia Afzal-Kahn -- Responses to violence: healing vs. punishment / Helena Cobban -- Our enemies, ourselves: why antiviolence movements must replace the dualism of "us and them" with an ethic of interdependence / Kay Whitlock.

"Based on a colloquium held in October 2002 at Barnard College."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Feminists responding to violence: theories, vocabularies, and strategies / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Feminism in a time of violence / Karen Beckman -- The wrong victims: terrorism, trauma, and symbolic violence / Sally Bachner -- Definitions and injuries of violence / Meredeth Turshen -- Filling the sight by force: a meditation on the violence of the vernacular / Laura Wexler -- Rethinking response to violence, rethinking the safety of "home" / Andrea Smith -- Violence of protection / Minoo Moallem -- Is secularism less violent than religion? / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Biblical promise and threat in U.S. imperialist rhetoric, before and after 9/11 / Erin Runions -- The best defense? The problem with Bush's "preemptive" war strategy / Neta C. Crawford -- The erosion of democracy in advancing the Bush admistration's Iraq agenda: government lies and misinformation and media complicity / Jody Williams -- Naming enmity: the case of Israel/Palestine / Gil Anidjar -- Toward a Cherokee theory of violence / Laura E. Donaldson -- Dangerous crossings: violence at the borders / Lois Ann Lorentzen -- Domestic terror / Catherine Lutz and Jon Elliston -- Testifying to violence: Gujarat as a state of exception / Anupama Rao -- Challenging what we mean by conflict prevention: the experience of East Timor / Gwi-Yeop Son -- Sisterhood after terrorism: Filipino ecumenical women and the U.S. wars / Kathryn Poethig -- The female body as a site of attack: will the "real" Muslim woman's body please reveal itself? / Fawzia Afzal-Kahn -- Responses to violence: healing vs. punishment / Helena Cobban -- Our enemies, ourselves: why antiviolence movements must replace the dualism of "us and them" with an ethic of interdependence / Kay Whitlock.

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