Women’s Human Rights: A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice

Cover......Page 1
Women’s Human Rights A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
About the Artist......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Contributors......Page 14
Introduction: The Potential for a Feminist Liberation Psychology in the Advancement of Women’s Human Rights......Page 16
SECTION ONE | Resistance: Understanding Change When Knowledge Is Constructed from “Below”......Page 38
	chapter 1 “I survived the war, but how can I survive peace?”: Feminist-​Based Research on War Rape 
and Liberation Psychology......Page 42
	Chapter 2	 How/​Can Psychology Support Low-​Income 
LGBTGNC Liberation?......Page 76
CRITICAL REFLECTION OF SECTION ONE—​Silence Kills in “Revolting” Times: Braiding Feminist Activist Scholarship with the Threads of Resistance, Human Rights, and Social Justice......Page 108
SECTION THREE | ​JUSTICE: Praxis Whereby Researchers Work Alongside the Dominated and Oppressed Rather Than Alongside the Dominator or Oppressor......Page 116
	Chapter 3	 From “Welfare Queens” to “Welfare Warriors”: Economic Justice as a Human Right......Page 120
	Chapter 4	 Integrating Grassroots Perspectives and Women’s Human Rights: Feminist Liberation Psychology in Action......Page 150
CRITICAL REFLECTION OF SECTION TWO—​What Is Psychology’s Role in the Project of Liberation and Structural Change?......Page 176
	Chapter 5	 Civic Participation, Prefigurative Politics, and Feminist Organizing in Rural Nicaragua......Page 188
	Chapter 6	 The Everyday and the Exceptional: Rethinking Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Garo Hills, India......Page 216
CRITICAL REFLECTION OF SECTION THREE—​Feminist Intersectional Human Rights: Embodying Justice in and Through Transnational Activist Scholarship......Page 242
Conclusion: Being Bold: Building a Justice-​Oriented Psychology of Women’s Human Rights......Page 252
Index......Page 258