Spectacular Rhetorics - Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms

Informationen zum Autor Wendy S. Hesford Klappentext A study of how visual human rights media portray victims. Zusammenfassung Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Human Rights Visions and Recognitions 2. Staging Terror Spectacles 3. Witnessing Rape Warfare: Suspending the Spectacle 4. Global Sex Work, Victim Identities, and Cybersexualities 5. Spectacular Childhoods: Sentimentality and the Politics of (In)visibility Conclusion: Posthumanism, Human Rights, and the Humanities Notes References Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Wendy Hesford, Wendy S. Hesford
• Con la collaborazione di: Inderpal Grewal (Editore), Caren Kaplan (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.08.2011
• EAN: 9780822349518
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4951-8
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva