Synopses & Reviews
Global Critical Race Feminism is the first anthology to focus explicitly on the legal rights of women of color
around the world. Containing nearly thirty essays, the book addresses such topical themes as responses to white feminism; the flashpoint issue of female genital mutilation; the intersections of international law with U.S. law; "Third World" women in the "First World;" violence against women; and the global workplace.
Broadly representative, the reader addresses the role and status-legal and otherwise-of women in such countries as Cuba, New Zealand, France, Serbia, Nicaragua, Colombia, South Africa, Japan, China, Australia, Ghana, and many others. Authors include: Aziza al-Hibri, Penelope Andrews, Taimie Bryant, Devon Carbado, Mai Chen, Brenda Cossman, Lisa Crooms, Mary Dudziak, Isabelle Gunning, Anna Han, Berta Hernández, Laura Ho, Sharon Hom, Rosemary King, Kiyoko Knapp, Hope Lewis, Martha Morgan, Zorica Mrsevic, Vasuki Nesiah, Leslye Obiora, Gaby Oré-Aguilar, Catherine Powell, Jenny Rivera, Celina Romany, Judy Scales-Trent, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, J. Clay Smith, and Leti Volpp.
Synopsis
The first anthology to collect essays focusing on the legal rights of women of color around the world
Global Critical Race Feminism is the first anthology to focus explicitly on the legal rights of women of color around the world. Containing nearly thirty essays, the book addresses such topical themes as responses to white feminism; the flashpoint issue of female genital mutilation; the intersections of international law with U.S. law; Third World women in the First World; violence against women; and the global workplace.
Broadly representative, the reader addresses the role and status-legal and otherwise-of women in such countries as Cuba, New Zealand, France, Serbia, Nicaragua, Colombia, South Africa, Japan, China, Australia, Ghana, and many others. Authors include: Aziza al-Hibri, Penelope Andrews, Taimie Bryant, Devon Carbado, Mai Chen, Brenda Cossman, Lisa Crooms, Mary Dudziak, Isabelle Gunning, Anna Han, Berta Hern ndez, Laura Ho, Sharon Hom, Rosemary King, Kiyoko Knapp, Hope Lewis, Martha Morgan, Zorica Mrsevic, Vasuki Nesiah, Leslye Obiora, Gaby Or -Aguilar, Catherine Powell, Jenny Rivera, Celina Romany, Judy Scales-Trent, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, J. Clay Smith, and Leti Volpp.
Synopsis
Overcoming Anger and Irritability is a self-help manual for those who find that they are harming the quality of their lives and the lives of those around them with recurring irritability and flashes of anger. It has been writen to help the reader to understand why bouts of anger occur and what can be done to overcome them. The guide takes a positive approach for which the long-term goal is lasting "good temper," and also provides methods for best handling taxing situations.
-Contains a complete self-help program and work sheets
-Is based on clinically proven techniques of cognitive therapy
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-436) and index.
About the Author
Dr. William Davies is a practicing chartered clinical psychologist, consultant psychologist at the BUPA HOspital, Leicester, and Academic Director of APT, the Association for Psychological Therapies.
Table of Contents
Global critical race feminism for the twenty-first century /Adrien Katherine Wing --Turning the gaze back on itself : comparative law, feminist legal studies, and the postcolonial project /Brenda J. Cossman --Toward a feminist internationality : a critique of U.S. feminist legal scholarship /Vasuki Nesiah --Themes for a conversation on race and gender in international human rights law /Celina Romany --Comparative analysis of women's issues : toward a contextualized methodology /Antoinette Sedillo Lopez --Fâeminismes san frontiáeres? The Cuban challenge-- women, equality, and culture /Berta Esperanza Hernâandez-Truyol --Women (under)development : poor women of color in the United States and the right to development /Hope Lewis --Motherhood and work in cultural context : one woman's patriarchal bargain /Devon W. Carbado --Discrimination in New Zealand : a personal journey /Mai Chen --African women in France : immigration, family, and work /Judy Scales-Trent --Filthy, old, and ugly : Gypsy women from Serbia /Zorica Mrsevic --Josephine Baker, racial protest, and the Cold War /Mary L. Dudziak --United States foreign policy and Goler Teal Butcher /J. Clay Smith, Jr. --Founding mothers and contemporary Latin American constitutions : Colombian women, constitution making, and the new Constitutional Court /Martha I. Morgan with the collaboration of Mâonica Marâia Alzate Buitrago.