Feminism, Law, and Epidemiology in the AIDS Response
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
3-2019
Editor(s)
Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir
ISBN
978-0-8166-9850-9
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically describe and assess contemporary feminist engagements with state and state-like power. Gathering examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, it complements and expands on the companion volume Governance Feminism: An Introduction. Its chapters argue that governance feminism (GF) is institutionally diverse and globally distributed—emerging from traditional sites of state power as well as from various forms of governance and operating at the grassroots level, in the private sector, in civil society, and in international relations.
The book begins by confronting the key role that crime and punishment play in GFeminist projects. Here, contributors explore the ideological and political conditions under which this branch of GF became so robust and rethink the carceral turn. Other chapters speak to another face of GFeminism: feminists finding, in mundane and seemingly unspectacular bureaucratic tools, leverage to bring about change in policy and governance practices. Several contributions highlight the political, strategic, and ethical challenges that feminists and LGBT activists must negotiate to play on the governmental field. The book concludes with a focus on feminist interventions in postcolonial legal and political orders, looking at new policy spaces opened up by conflict, postconflict, and occupation.
Providing a clear, cross-cutting, critical lens through which to map developments in feminist governance around the world, Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field makes sense of the costs and benefits of current feminist realities to reimagine feminist futures.
Recommended Citation
Aziza Ahmed,
Feminism, Law, and Epidemiology in the AIDS Response
,
in
Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field
180
(Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir ed.,
2019).
Available at:
https://doi.org/https://doi-org.ezproxy.bu.edu/10.5749/j.ctvdjrpfs.11
