The Cunning of Gender Violence
Geopolitics and Feminism
Herausgeber: Abu-Lughod, Lila
Lila Abu-Lughod is Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. Rema Hammami is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at The Hebrew University and Chair in Global Law at Queen Mary University of London.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Circuits of Power in GBVAW Governance / Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema
Hammami, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 1
I. Securitization
1. Lawfare, CVE, and International Conflict Feminism / Vasuki Nesiah 55
2. Securofeminism: Embracing a Phantom / Lila Abu-Lughod 88
3. The Role of “Honor Killings” in the Muslim Ban / Leti Volpp 122
4. Because Religion: Does Something Called “Religion” Cause Gender-Based
Violence? / Janet R. Jakobsen 151
II. States of Violence, Unruly Subjects
5. GBV and Postcolonial India: Transnational Media, Hindutva, and Muslim
Racializations / Inderpal Grewal 177
6. The Politics of Legislating “Honor Crime” in Contemporary Pakistan /
Shenila Khoja-Moolji 209
7. State Criminality and Gender-Based Violence: Palestinian Schoolgirls
between Books and Rifles / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 233
8. Power, Subjectivity, and Sexuality in Iranian Political Prisons / Shahla
Talebi 259
III. Civilizing Interventions: Development and Humanitarianism
9. Child Marriage in the Feminist Imagination / Dina M. Siddiqi 293
10. Catastrophic Aid: GBV Humanitarianism in Gaza / Rema Hammami 324
11. What Counts as Violence? Transgender Refugees, Torture, and Sanctions /
Sima Shakhsari 361
IV. Media Frames
12. Weaponized Bodies: Female Genital Mutilation and Immigrant Exclusion /
Rafia Zakaria 391
13. Breaking the Frame: The Power of Media Narratives and the Question of
Agency / Samira Shackle 405
14. Dressed Up, Stripped Down: Media Depictions of Conflict Rape / Nina
Berman 422
Contributors 439
Index 445
