Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader

Adrien Katherine Wing

NYU Press, 2000 - Law - 451 pages

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 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.

Contents

• Global Critical Race Feminism: 1
• Responses to Feminism: 13
• Comparative Law: 27
• A Critique: 42
• Themes for a Conversation on Race and Gender: 53
• Toward: 67
• Women Equality and Culture: 81
• Poor Women of Color: 95
• A Personal Journey: 129
• Immigration Family: 141
• Gypsy Women from Serbia: 160
• United States Foreign Policy and Goler Teal Butcher: 192
• Founding Mothers and Contemporary Latin American: 204
• Deconstructing Patriarchal Jurisprudence: 221
• The Oppressive Impact of Family Registration: 234
• The Human Rights Specter: 251
• Rethinking Polemics: 260
• A Response: 275
• Family Terrorism Rape: 301
• An Initial Step: 317
• Puerto Ricos Domestic Violence Prevention: 347
• DisAssembling Rights of Women Workers along: 377
• Marketization: 392
• Japanese Women Betrayed: 409
• Selected Bibliography: 425
• Contributors: 437
• Index: 445

About the author

​Adrien Katherine Wing is the Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs and the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader; Volume 40 of Critical America, ISSN 2691-168X
• Editor: Adrien Katherine Wing
• Publisher: NYU Press, 2000
• ISBN: 081479338X, 9780814793381
• Length: 451 pages
• Subjects: Law / Discrimination; Law / General; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / General; Social Science / Minority Studies; Social Science / Women's Studies