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Oxford Womens Human Rights A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance Liberation and Justice 2017 Edition by Shelly Grabe
At a United Nations conference in 1995, 189 governments adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, an international agenda for women's equality and a statement of women's rights as human rights. Since that time, violations of women's human rights have become a widely-documented problem across many academic disciplines, international organizations, and activist social movements. Nevertheless, violations against women occur unabated despite widespread commitmentsinternationally to draw increased attention to women's experiences. Given that a focus on women's rights was first put forth two decades ago, the question remains: why do egregious violations of women's rights continue?Edited by Shelly Grabe, Women's Human Rights: A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice contributes to the discussion of why women's human rights warrants increased focus in the context of globalization and how psychology can provide the currently missing, but necessary, links between transnational feminism and the discourse on women's human rights and neoliberalism. This volume takes a radically different approach to women's human rights by turning itsattention to a variety of disciplines and, as a result, develops new ideas regarding how psychology can be relevant in the study or actualization of women's human rights. By doing so, it makes it very clear for readers as to how activist scholarship can make a unique contribution to the defense of women'srights. Rather than using examples that have been sensationalized throughout academia and advocacy (i.e. genital mutilation), each of this book's contributing authors has used examples (rape, sexual orientation, homelessness, civic participation, violence) of specific human rights violations that occur the world over in their attempt to make the relevance of psychology to this topic more visible to the reader. Table of Contents :- PrefaceShelly GrabeIntroduction: The Potential for a Feminist Liberation Psychology in the Advancement of Women's Human RightsShelly GrabeSECTION ONE - RESISTANCE: Understanding Change When Knowledge is Constructed from 'Below'Shelly GrabeChapter 1: "I survived the war, but how can I survive peace" Feminist-based Research on War Rape and Liberation PsychologySimone Lindorfer and Kirsten WienbergChapter 2: How/Can Psychology Support Low Income LGBTGNC LiberationMichelle BilliesCRITICAL REFLECTION OF SECTION ONE - Silence Kills in "Revolting" Times: Braiding Feminist Activist Scholarship with the Threads of Resistance, Human Rights and Social JusticeMichelle FineSECTION TWO - LIBERATION: The Transformation of Social StructuresShelly GrabeChapter 3: From "Welfare MothersQueens" to "Welfare Warriors": Economic Justice as a Human RightHeather E. BullockChapter 4: Integrating Grassroots Perspectives and Women's Human Rights: Feminist Liberation Psychology in ActionGeraldine MoaneCRITICAL REFLECTION OF SECTION TWO - What is Psychology's Role in the Project of Liberation and Structural Change?Abigail J. StewartSECTION THREE - JUSTICE: Praxis Whereby Researchers Work Alongside the Dominated and Oppressed Rather than Alongside the Dominator or OppressorShelly GrabeChapter 5: Civic Participation, Prefigurative Politics, and Feminist Organizing in Rural NicaraguaAnjali DuttChapter 6: The Everyday and the Exceptional: Rethinking Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Garo Hills, IndiaUrmitapa DuttaCRITICAL REFLECTION OF SECTION THREE - Feminist Intersectional Human Rights: Embodying Justice in and through Transnational Activist ScholarshipM. Brinton LykesConclusion: Being Bold: Building a Justice-oriented Psychology of Women's Human RightsAnjali Dutt