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Zusatztext This vibrant collection as a whole shows how the tension between the local and the global can be navigated through appreciating! as Walklate highlights! the lessons of standpoint feminism to knowledge construction! and an acknowledgment of the diversity of women's lives (Cain and Howe 2008: 212-13). It makes a strong case for pushing the boundaries of criminology to encompass an analytic of social harm to reveal those cases of 'censure without sanction' (Cain and Howe 2008: 17). Informationen zum Autor Maureen Cain is a sociologist. She has worked at Brunel University, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, and the University of Birmingham. Adrian Howe is an Associate Professor in Social Science at RMIT University. Klappentext This book is by and about women. The book examines the harms and crimes to which women are subjected to as a result of global social processes, and their efforts to take control of their own futures. The papers explore the criminogenic and damaging conseq Zusammenfassung This book is about the harms and crimes women are subjected to as a result of global social processes, and their efforts to control their futures. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Criminogenesis, the War Against Drugs and Human Rights: (Another) Story of Absented Women Maureen Cain2. Violence Against Women: Rethinking the Local–Global Nexus in Feminst Strategy Adrian Howe3. Globalisation, Human Security, Fundamentalism and Women's Rights: Emergent Contradictions Peggy AntrobusPart II Women on the Move4. The Gender of Borderpanic: Women in Circuits of Security, State, Globalisation and New (and Old) Empire Suvendrini Perera5. Xeno-racism and the Demonisation of Refugees: A Gendered Perspective Liz Fekete6. Dangerous Liaisons: Sex Work, Globalisation, Morality and the State in Contemporary India Brinda BosePart III Human Rights-Limits and Possibilities7. Global Rights, Local Harms: The Case of the Human Rights of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa Esther Kisaakye8. The Globalisation of International Human Rights Law, Aboriginal Women and the Practice of Aboriginal Customary Law Megan DavisPart IV Rethinking Social Harm in a Global Context9. Women and Natural Disasters: State Crime and Discourses in Vulnerability Penny Green10. Global Feminist Networks on Domestic Violence Rhoda Reddock11. Local Contexts and Globalised Knowledge: What can International Criminal Victimisation Surveys Tell Us About Women's Diverse Lives? Sandra Walklate...
