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gender and the framing of torture at Abu Ghraib
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Caldwell, Ryan Ashley
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- geweld, oorlogsslachtoffers, oorlog en vrede, gevangenissen, militaire beroepen, daders, slachtoffers, seksualiteit, Irak, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This book is an analysis of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib based on first-hand participant-observations of the courts - martials of Lynndie England and Sabrina Harman. It examines the trials themselves, including interactions with soldiers and defense teams, documents pertaining to the courts-martials, US government reports and photographs from Abu Ghraib, in order to challenge the view that the abuses were carried out at the hands of a few rogue soldiers. With a keen focus on gender and sexuality as prominent aspects of the abuses themselves, as well as the ways in which they were portrayed and tried, the book engages with modern feminist thought and contemporary social theory in order to analyse the manner in which the abuses were framed, whilst also exploring the various lived realities of Abu Ghraib by both prisoners and soldiers alike.
the personal journal of a revolutionary woman
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stern, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 STE 2007
- Thesaurus
- actiegroepen, kapitalisme, seksualiteit, gevangenissen, egodocument, jaren zestig, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The Weathermen --a U.S.-based, revolutionary splinter group of Students for a Democratic Society-- advocated the overthrow of the government and capitalism, in the social and cultural environment of the New Left during the late 1960s. and toward that end, carried out a campaign of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots throughout the United States. In With the Weathermen Stern traces her involvement with this group, and her transformation from a shy, married graduate student into a go-go dancing, drugs, sex, street-fighting 'macho mama.' She describes the attractions and difficulties of joining a collective radical group and in maintaining a position within it. Stern's memoir offers a description of the raw and rough social dynamics of this community, from its strict demands to 'smash monogamy,' to its sometimes enforced orgies, and to the demeaning character assassination that was led by the group's top members. She provides a distinctly personal and female perspective on the destructive social functionality and frequently contradictory attitudes toward gender roles and women's rights within the New Left.
prisoners, activists, scholars, and artists
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lawston, Jodie Michelle > (ed.)
- Creator
- Lucas, Ashley E. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- gevangenissen, geweld, kunsten, moederschap, seksualiteit, transgenders, gezondheid, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- This book puts incarcerated women in dialogue with scholars, artists, educators, and activists who live outside of prisons but work on issues connected to the prison industrial complex. Women make up the fastest-growing group within the U.S. prison population, yet prison scholarship largely overlooks the struggles of incarcerated women, and their voices are often silenced both in and out of the prison infrastructure. From the vantage points of those both inside and outside of prisons, this collection of essays and art illuminates many of the experiences and concerns of incarcerated women, including abuse and rape: the policing of women: incarcerated motherhood: mental health issues in prisons: incarcerated women’s artistic and cultural production: and prisons’ impact on families, health, and sexuality.
sex, science, and delinquent girls, 1890-1960
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rembis, Michael A.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- gevangenissen, geweld, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, handicapisme, eugenetica, meisjes, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This book analyzes how reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perceived delinquent girls and their often troubled lives. The author examines the cases of vulnerable young women to reveal the centrality of sex, class, gender, and disability in the formation of scientific and social reform. Rembis recounts the contestations between largely working-class teenage girls and the mostly female reformers and professionals who attempted to diagnose and treat them based on changing ideas of eugenics, gender, and impairment. He shows how generational roles and prevailing notions of gender and sexuality influenced reformers to restrict, control, and institutionalize undesirable 'defectives' within society, and he details the girls' attempts to influence methods of diagnosis, discipline, and reform.
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