Transnational feminist theorists have worried about the implications of linking women’s rights
Transnational feminist theorists have worried about the implications of linking women’s rights to human rights. Ratna Kapur’s influential analysis of the way rights discourses construct third world women as “victim-subjects” and Inderpal Grewal’s charge that human rights is “a regime of truth” linked both to welfare and forms of power are both exemplary. -175Professor Grewal speaks at a conference in 2007, regarding transnational feminism and terrorism.http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2007/05/07/transnational-feminism-terrorism/“ To think about what feminists might work as a particular kind of analytic, and what might lead us to do not just as an object of analysis but as an analytic and that might be interesting in a certain way. So that feminism as a practice might be something about interrogating subordination, inequality, imperialism, the kind of production of differences between public and private, tradition and modernity, domestic and foreign, bio politics and geopolitics, sexual differences. All of these practices would be included in thinking about what a feminist analytic might mean. “ really, check the panel out.-HKJ -- source link
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