Just Advocacy?

Wendy S. Hesford is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University where she teaches feminist rhetoric, autobiography, human-rights literature, and composition theory. Wendy Kozol is an associate professor of gender and women's studies at Oberlin College, where she teaches courses on feminist cultural studies.

Just Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked ways that women and children are further subjugated when political or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray the individuals that are helping them as paternal saviours. It proposes a more nuanced and politically responsible understanding of human rights.

Foreword by Inderpal GrewalAcknowledgments  Introduction by Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol Part One: Human Rights, Trans/Nationalisms, and Cultures of Security 1. Claiming Afghan Women: The Challenge of Human Rights Discourse for Transnational Feminism by Amy Farrell and Patrice McDermott 2. The Boundaries of Terror: Feminism, Human Rights, and the Politics of Global Crisis by Leela Fernandes 3. The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post-Imperial Anxiety by Susan Koshy Part Two: Human Rights and the Evidence of Experience 4. Autobiography's Wounds by Leigh Gilmore 5. Belated Narrating: "Grandmothers" Telling Stores of Forced Sexual Servitude during World War II by Sidonie Smith 6. Kairos and the Geopolitical Rhetorics of Global Sex Work and Video Advocacy by Wendy S. Hesford 7. Misrepresentations of Missing Women in the U.S. Press: The Rhetorical Uses of Disgust, Pity, and Compassion by Arabella Lyon Part Three: Correspondences: Activist and "Official" Networks 8. Intensifications: Representing Gender and Sexuality at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS by Meredith Raimondo 9. Human Rights, Feminism, and Transnational Labor Solidarity by Mary Margaret Fonow 10. Feminist Strategic Rethinking of Human Rights Discourses in Education by Jill Blackmore 11. Piercing the Veil by Mahavi SunderList of ContributorsIndex