Cunning of Gender Violence

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.

“The Cunning of Gender Violence is a riveting and much-needed interdisciplinary collection that aims both to understand and radically shift the securitized, racialized, and imperial approaches to gender violence that dominate law, policy, and the media. Compellingly calling on feminists to recognize the Faustian bargain they have struck by perpetuating these dominant approaches, the book brings to the fore lives and experiences that have often been relegated to the margins of global feminist attention, even as they are at the center of multiple forms of quotidian global and state violence.” - Karen Engle, author of (author of The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law) “Those committed to an anti-Muslim agenda appoint themselves as modern, humanitarian, democratic, and feminist, a status achieved against a Third World constituted as premodern, illiberal, Muslim, and uniquely given to gender-based violence. It is a major contribution of this book to show how global racial governance is achieved through the idea of gender-based violence as a defining feature of Third World cultures and communities.” - Sherene H. Razack, author of (Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism) "A remarkable piece of work within the realm of geopolitical feminism. ... It stands out for its sharp acumen and the detailed analysis of scholars who have dedicated themselves to researching and confronting gender-based violence against women in various global contexts."- Yanyan Zhu (Affilia) "In brief, this volume represents a thorough investigation and assessment of the trajectory of the feminist project to combat violence against women in the wider context of global and local circuits of religious and political power. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." - A. Rassam (Choice)

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction: Circuits of Power in GBVAW Governance / Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian  1I. Securitization1. Lawfare, CVE, and International Conflict Feminism / Vasuki Nesiah  552. Securofeminism: Embracing a Phantom / Lila Abu-Lughod  883. The Role of “Honor Killings” in the Muslim Ban / Leti Volpp  1224. Because Religion: Does Something Called “Religion” Cause Gender-Based Violence? / Janet R. Jakobsen  151II. States of Violence, Unruly Subjects5. GBV and Postcolonial India: Transnational Media, Hindutva, and Muslim Racializations / Inderpal Grewal  1776. The Politics of Legislating “Honor Crime” in Contemporary Pakistan / Shenila Khoja-Moolji  2097. State Criminality and Gender-Based Violence: Palestinian Schoolgirls between Books and Rifles / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian  2338. Power, Subjectivity, and Sexuality in Iranian Political Prisons / Shahla Talebi  259III. Civilizing Interventions: Development and Humanitarianism9. Child Marriage in the Feminist Imagination / Dina M. Siddiqi  29310. Catastrophic Aid: GBV Humanitarianism in Gaza / Rema Hammami  32411. What Counts as Violence? Transgender Refugees, Torture, and Sanctions / Sima Shakhsari  361IV. Media Frames12. Weaponized Bodies: Female Genital Mutilation and Immigrant Exclusion / Rafia Zakaria  39113. Breaking the Frame: The Power of Media Narratives and the Question of Agency / Samira Shackle  40514. Dressed Up, Stripped Down: Media Depictions of Conflict Rape / Nina Berman  422Contributors  439Index  445