Chapter 1. Gender, History, and Human Rights

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights 1
4. PART I. Images and Interventions
5. Chapter 1. Gender, History, and Human Rights 17
6. Chapter 2. Between Law and Culture: Contemplating Rights for Women in Zanzibar 32
7. Chapter 3. A Clash of Cultures: Women, Domestic Violence, and Law in the United States 55
8. PART II. Travels and Translations
9. Chapter 4. Making Women’s Human Rights in the Vernacular: Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide 81
10. Chapter 5. The Active Social Life of “Muslim Women’s Rights” 101
11. Chapter 6. How Not to be a Machu Qari (Old Man): Human Rights, Machismo, and Military Nostalgia in Peru’s Andes 120
12. Chapter 7. “These Are Not Our Priorities”: Maasai Women, Human Rights, and the Problem of Culture 138
13. PART III. Mobilizations and Mediations
14. Chapter 8. The Rights to Speak and to Be Heard: Women’s Interpretations of Rights Discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement 161
15. Chapter 9. Muslim Women, Rights Discourse, and the Media in Kenya 180
16. Chapter 10. Fighting for Fatherhood and Family: Immigrant Detainees’ Struggles for Rights 200
17. Chapter 11. Defending Women, Defending Rights: Transnational Organizing in a Culture of Human Rights 218
18. Notes 235
19. Bibliography 253
20. Contributors 283
21. Index 289
22. Acknowledgments 301