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• Introduction: The New Topography of Space
• The Feminist Imaginary through the Cinematic Imagination
• Three Models of Imagination: As Faculty, as Context, and as Imaginal
• A Genealogy of the Concept of Rape: A Critical Reconstruction of the Patriarchal Social Imaginary
• Anachronisms and Representations as Tools for a Critical Feminist Social Imaginary
• The Lost Promise of Feminist Agency in Modern Political Theories: The Dialectic of Visibility into Invisibility
• Conclusion: The New Road of Visibilities: Overcoming Secrets, Invisibility, and Exclusion.

"This book challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. María Pía Lara draws on cinematic images of women' s struggles to develop a concept of the feminist social imaginary"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover
• Series
• Capable Women, Incapable States
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Section I Opening
• 1. Introduction: Endeavor
• 2. Stalled: The Landscape of Domestic Violence
• Section II Negotiations
• 3. Running a Family: Women's Reasons for Reconciliation
• 4. The Business of Mediation: Why Organized Actors Intervene
• 5. Incentivizing the Law: How Organized Actors Change Women's Preferences
• 6. Under Pressure: Law Enforcement's Sense of Victimization
• 7 Avoid and Delegate: Law Enforcement's Responses to Women's Claims

• Section III Citizens
• 8. Running a Case: The Praxis of Law
• 9. Aspirational and Strategic: The Subjectivity of Law
• 10. Justice by Another Name: What Women Gained from Running Cases
• 11. The Allure and Costs of Capability
• 12. Conclusion: Capability Without Rights
• Section IV Appendices
• Appendix A Methodological Discussion
• Appendix B Key Legal Reforms
• Appendix C First Information Report
• Appendix D Domestic Incident Report
• Notes
• References
• Index

In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India. Yet, Indian law enforcement personnel continue to be biased against women and overburdened. In Capable Women, Incapable States, Poulami Roychowdhury asks how women claim rights within these conditions. Through long term ethnography, she provides an in-depth lens on rights negotiations in the world's largest democracy, detailing their social and political effects. Roychowdhury finds that women interact with the law not by following legal procedure or abiding by the rules, but by deploying collective threats and doing the work of the state themselves. And they behave this way because law enforcement personnel do not protect women from harm but do allow women to take the law into their own hands.These negotiations do not enhance legal enforcement. Instead, they create a space where capable women can extract concessions outside the law, all while shouldering a new burden of labor and risk. A unique theory of gender inequality and governance, Capable Women, Incapable States forces us to rethink the effects of rights activism across large parts of the world where political mobilization confronts negligent criminal justice systems.
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• Engendering access to justice for the poorest and most vulnerable in Sub-Saharan Africa / Adam Dubin, David Lawson and Lea Mwambene
• Access to justice for children in Zimbabwe / Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Blessing Mushohwe
• Children, forced and early marriage : preventing and responding to early marriage in Uganda / Asieh Yousefnejad Shomali and David Lawson
• A child belongs to (s)he who paid the bride price : customary law adoption of children in Limpopo, South Africa / Kagiso A. Maphalle
• Integrating gender and access to justice into public policy of the African Union / Paloma Duran
• Access to justice, gender and customary marriage laws in Malawi / Lea Mwambene and Robert Doya Nanima
• Justice for women in traditional and customary courts in Sierra Leone : a feminist analysis / Aisha Fofana Ibrahim
• Engendering access to justice in Nigeria : the role of public interest litigation / Basil Ugochukwa
• Without land, without justice : how women’s lack of land rights impedes access to justice / Aparna Polavarapu
• Conflict-related sexual violence and access to justice : the case of Central African Republic / Isidore Collins Ngueuleu and Cristina Fernández-Durán Gortázar
• Domestic violence against rural women in Nigeria : effective access to justice? / Ifeoma Pamelo Enemo
• Strengthening access to justice for women refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa / Fatima Khan and Ncumisa Willie
• Conclusion: Gendered justice policies on reaching the most vulnerable and extreme poor in SSA / Adam Dubin, David Lawson and Lea Mwambene

Access to justice is a fundamental right guaranteed under a wide body of international, regional and domestic law. It is also an essential component of development policies which seek to adequately respond to the multidimensional deprivations faced by the poor in order to improve socio-economic well-being and advance the progress of the Sustainable Development Goals. Women and children make up most of Africa's poorest and most marginalized population, and as such are often prevented from enforcing rights or seeking other recourse. This book explores and analyzes the issue of gendered access to justice, poverty and disempowerment across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and provides policy discussions on the integration of gender in justice programming. Through individual country case studies, the book focuses on the challenges, obstacles and successes of developing and implementing gender focused access to justice policies and programming in the region. This multidisciplinary volume will be of interest to policy makers as well as scholars and researchers focusing on poverty and gender policy across law, economics and global development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, the volume provides policy discussion applicable in other geographical areas where access to justice is elusive for the poor and marginalized.
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• Introduction
• The notion of persecution : historical background and interpretive challenges in the 21st century
• Developing a framework for interpreting the notion of persecution : an assessment of the basic human rights model
• Alternative proposals to the basic human rights approach for interpreting the notion of persecution
• Interpreting persecution in the context of harm faced by refugee women related
• Conclusion

This book explores the ambit of the notion of persecution in international law and its relevance in the current geopolitical context, more specifically for refugee women. The work analyses different models for interpreting the notion of persecution in international refugee law through a comparative lens. In particular, a feminist approach to refugee law is adopted to determine to what extent the notion of persecution can apply to gender related forms of violence and what are the challenges in doing so. It proposes an interpretive model that would encourage decision makers to interpret the notion of persecution in a manner that is sufficiently protective and relevant to the profiles of refugees in the 21st century, most particularly to refugee women. The book will be of interest to academics and students in the field of public international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, immigration law, European law, and refugee law as well as those working in the areas of international relations.
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It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. How do race and gender affect who gets elected, as well as who is represented? What issues do elected representatives prioritize? Does diversity in representation make a difference? Race, Gender, and Political Representation takes up the call to think about representation in the United States as intersectional, and it measures the extent to which political representation is simultaneously gendered and raced. Specifically, the book examines how race and gender interact to affect the election, behavior, and impact of all individuals. By putting women of color at the center of their analysis and re-evaluating traditional, "single-axis" approaches to studying the politics of race or gender, the authors demonstrate what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal. Drawing on original data on the presence, policy leadership, and policy impact of Black women and men, Latinas and Latinos, and White women and men in state legislative office in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, each chapter shows how the politics of race, gender, and representation are far more complex than recurring "Year of the Woman" frameworks suggest. An array of race-gender similarities and differences are evident in the experiences, activities, and accomplishments of these state legislators. Yet one thing is clear: the representation of those marginalized by multiple, intersecting systems of power and inequality is intricately bound to the representation of women of color.
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It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. How do race and gender affect who gets elected, as well as who is represented? What issues do elected representatives prioritize? Does diversity in representation make a difference? Race, Gender, and Political Representation takes up the call to think about representation in the United States as intersectional, and it measures the extent to which political representation is simultaneously gendered and raced. Specifically, the book examines how race and gender interact to affect the election, behavior, and impact of all individuals. By putting women of color at the center of their analysis and re-evaluating traditional, "single-axis" approaches to studying the politics of race or gender, the authors demonstrate what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal. Drawing on original data on the presence, policy leadership, and policy impact of Black women and men, Latinas and Latinos, and White women and men in state legislative office in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, each chapter shows how the politics of race, gender, and representation are far more complex than recurring "Year of the Woman" frameworks suggest. An array of race-gender similarities and differences are evident in the experiences, activities, and accomplishments of these state legislators. Yet one thing is clear: the representation of those marginalized by multiple, intersecting systems of power and inequality is intricately bound to the representation of women of color.
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It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. How do race and gender affect who gets elected, as well as who is represented? What issues do elected representatives prioritize? Does diversity in representation make a difference? Race, Gender, and Political Representation takes up the call to think about representation in the United States as intersectional, and it measures the extent to which political representation is simultaneously gendered and raced. Specifically, the book examines how race and gender interact to affect the election, behavior, and impact of all individuals. By putting women of color at the center of their analysis and re-evaluating traditional, "single-axis" approaches to studying the politics of race or gender, the authors demonstrate what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal. Drawing on original data on the presence, policy leadership, and policy impact of Black women and men, Latinas and Latinos, and White women and men in state legislative office in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, each chapter shows how the politics of race, gender, and representation are far more complex than recurring "Year of the Woman" frameworks suggest. An array of race-gender similarities and differences are evident in the experiences, activities, and accomplishments of these state legislators. Yet one thing is clear: the representation of those marginalized by multiple, intersecting systems of power and inequality is intricately bound to the representation of women of color.
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• Introduction by Jeremy Roe and Jean Andrews
• Part I: The politics of non-elite devotional identities in textual, visual and material culture
• 1. Three willful characters in search for God: visionary action and political identity in seventeenth-century Portuguese women mystics
• Joana Serrado
• 2. From spectatorship to sponsorship: female participation in the festivals of colonial Potosi
• Lisa Voigt
• 3. The mirror-shield of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
• Diane H. Bodart
• 4. Female agency and the sculptural object in Agostinho de Santa Maria's hagiography of Filipa Ferreira (?-1626), the Augustinian Soror Filipa da Trindade
• Carla Alferes Pinto
• 5. Josefa de Ayala e Cabreira's St Catherine of Alexandria altarpiece and female empowerment
• Jean Andrews
• Part II: Spaces and spectacles of the female courtier
• 6. The monastery I have built in this city of Madrid: mapping Juana of Austria's royal spaces in the Descalzas Reales convent
• Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
• 7. Ladies-in-waiting at the Spanish Habsburg palaces and convents, the Alcazar and the Descalzas Reales (1570-1603): spaces and representations of identity and agency
• Vanessa de Cruz Medina
• 8. Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda, Princess of Eboli: image, myth, and person
• Trevor J. Dadson
• 9. The Relacao do torneio que fizeram as damas da Rainha Nossa Senhora, a noite do Baptisado do Sr Infante D. Pedro...: identification and the spectacle of court culture
• Jeremy Roe
• 10. The use, significance and projection of artistic objects in the life and exequies of the VI Duchess of Aveiro
• Gema Rivas Gomez Calcerrada
• Part III: Rethinking regal iconography: the materiality and ideology of symbolism
• 11. The Queen Consort in Castile and Portugal: Maria of Aragon (b. 1403-d. 1445), Queen of Castile and Leonor of Aragon (b. 1405/1408-d. 1445), Queen of Portugal
• Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues
• 12. Mariana de Austria: the ideal bride and saviour of the Habsburg Monarchy
• Inmaculada Rodriguez Moya
• 13. Dresses, portraits and spaces: female identities at the Royal Alcazar (1621-1665)
• Laura Olivan Santaliestra
• 14. Queen Catherine, a Braganca in seventeenth-century London: cultural legacy, identity and political 'individuality'
• Susana Varela Flor.
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By exploring textual, visual and material culture, this volume presents a range of new research into the experiences, agencies and diverse political identities of Iberian women between the fifteenth and early-eighteenth century. Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World explores how the political identities of Iberian women were represented in various forms of visual culture including: religious paintings and portraiture; costume; and devotional and funerary sculpture. This study examines the transmission of Iberian culture and its concepts of identity to locations such as Peru, Goa and Mexico, providing a rich insight into Iberia's complex history and legacy. The collection of essays explores the lives of protagonists, which vary from queens and members of the nobility to painters and nuns, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of both the elite and non-elite woman's experience in Spain, Portugal and their overseas realms during the early modern period. By addressing the significance of gender alongside the visual representation of political ideology and identity, this book is an invaluable source for students and researchers of early modern Iberia and the history of women.
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• Part 1: Overview and definitions
• What is violence against women and girls (VAWG)?
• Historical struggle
• Mapping VAWG globally
• VAWG and gender discrimintaiton, inequality, and power
• Conflict-related VAWG
• Part 2: Causes of VAWG
• Men, masculinities, and VAWG
• Culture and VAWG
• VAWG and the media
• Development, poverty, and VAWG
• Employment, precarity, and VAWG
• Migration, human trafficing, and VAWG
• VAWG and land/property rights
• Part 3: Contexts and impacts
• Education, schools, and VAWG
• VAWG and the environment
• International security and VAWG
• VAWG and health and reproductive rights
• Part 4: Responses
• Legal frameworks: National and international
• Policy frameworks and solutions
• Economics and VAWG
• Advocacy frameworks: Ending VAWG.

"Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has increasingly come to the forefront of international and national policy debates and news: from the US reauthorization of the Violence against Women Act and a United Nations declaration to end sexual violence in war, to coverage of gang rapes in India, cyberstalking and "revenge porn", honor killings, female genital mutilation, and international trafficking. Yet, while we frequently read or learn about particular experiences or incidents of VAWG, we are often unaware of the full picture."--Provided by publisher.

• Introduction--
• 1. Family Life--
• 2. Legal Status, Citizenship and Ethnicity--
• 3. Occupations--
• 4. Social Relations, Travel and Migration--
• 5. Religion--
• 6. Public Life--
• 7. Imperial Women.
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By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the social lives, occupations, family belonging, mobility, ethnicity, religious affiliations, public honour and legal status of Roman women ranging from slaves and freedwomen to women of the elite and the imperial family, both in Rome and in Italian and provincial towns. They thus shed light on women who are largely overlooked by the literary sources. The wide range of inscriptions and graffiti included in this book show women participating not only in their families and households but also in the social and professional life of their cities. Moreover, they offer us a glimpse of women's own voices. Marital ideals and problems, love and hate, friendship, birth and bereavement, joy and hardship all figure in inscriptions, revealing some of the richness and variety of life in the ancient world.
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• Foreword / by Joseph Leo Koerner
• Introduction: Baldung's polluted witches, poison maids, basilisks and crones
• The abject erotic feminine in Hans Baldung Grien
• The world of Baldung's 1510 Witches' Sabbath
• Baldung's 'Jewish' witches
• Baldung and the witch doctors
• Blood, visions, witch women and saints
• Baldung and the morality of vision
• Classical reception, toxic femininity and Hippomanes in The Bewitched Groom
• Humanist humour in Baldung
• Erudite obscenities and pious pornography
• Conclusion.

"Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Durer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, 'death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body. Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from - and contributed to - the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural 'feminine defect,' a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung's iconic witchcraft imagery, this book will be essential for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods"-- Provided by publisher.

"שיריה של אבישג עמית שפירא בוקעים מעומקו של קו השבר שבין נשיותה ליהדותה, בין כוח האהבה ועינויי הכאב. באינטנסיביות ובחמלה עצומה בוחנת המשוררת את הרקע התרבותי שהיא חלק ממנו, ויוצרת מדרשים מחודשים עבור נשים שקולן הושתק והודר. כמה מהשירים החזקים בספר עוסקים בקרבנות הנשיים במקרא, שקולה של עמית שפירא מעניק להן מחדש את עצמתן. קולה של המשוררת שולה מאפילת הנפש והכאב פנינים נסתרות של אור ויופי, וגם ברגעים של כאב, עלבון, צער ופריעת הגוף היא מקשיבה למה שאין לו שפה, ומעניקה לו קול." -- מן המעטפת האחורית

• Roadmap / Azad, Samina, PLZ Aeroscience, Pacific, Missouri 63069, United States, Career Consultant at American Chemical Society, Washington, DC 20036, United States / http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1354.ch001
• From Permission to Poise / Balbes, Lisa M., Balbes Consultants LLC, Kirkwood, Missouri 63122, United States; Francl, Michelle, Department of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010, United States / http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1354.ch002
• Understanding Bias in Science / Dean, Donna J., Career Consultant, Hedgesville, West Virginia 25427, United States; Simpson, Cynthia L., National Society for Histotechnology, 3545 Ellicott Mills Drive, Ellicott City, Maryland 21043, United States / http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1354.ch003
• Science behind Bias / Schneider, Blair, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, United States; Holmes, Mary Anne, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, United States / http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1354.ch004
• Who Belongs in Science: Numbers Are Not Enough / Traxler, Adrienne L., Department of Physics, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, Ohio 45435, United States / http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1354.ch005
• Removing Barriers / Stallings, Dontarie, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States; Iyer, Srikant, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States; Hernandez, Rigoberto, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States / http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1354.ch006
• Changing Academic Cultures to Respond to Hostile Climates / Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, University of California, Merced, 5200 N. Lake Road, Merced, California 95340, United States; Hastings, Meredith, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Geochemistry 139, Box 1846, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States; Schneider, Blair, Kansas Geological Survey; 1930 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, United States; Marín-Spiotta, Erika, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 550 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States / http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1354.ch007
• Matters of Ethics / LaFranzo, Natalie A., Cofactor Genomics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States, Diversity, Inclusion and Respect Advisory Board, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC 20036, United States; Giordano, Nicholas, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States; Arriaga, Edgar, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States, Committee on Professional Training, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC 20036, United States / http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1354.ch008
• Gender Bias and the Law / Grossman, Joanna L., SMU Dedman School of Law, 3315 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75205, United States / http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1354.ch009