View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . Global Critical Race Feminismis the first anthology to focus explicitly on the legal rights of women of coloraround 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 Hernszlig;ndez, Laura Ho, Sharon Hom, Rosemary King, Kiyoko Knapp, Hope Lewis, Martha Morgan, Zorica Mrsevic, Vasuki Nesiah, Leslye Obiora, Gaby Ore-Aguilar, Catherine Powell, Jenny Rivera, Celina Romany, Judy Scales-Trent, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, J. Clay Smith, and Leti Volpp.

Foreword

xi

Angela Y. Davis

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction: Global Critical Race Feminism for the Twenty-First Century

1

(26)

Adrien Katherine Wing

PART 1 Encounters with the ``F'' Word: Responses to Feminism

Turning the Gaze Back on Itself: Comparative Law, Feminist Legal Studies, and the Postcolonial Project

27

(15)

Brenda J. Cossman

Toward a Feminist Internationality: A Critique of U.S. Feminist Legal Scholarship

42

(11)

Vasuki Nesiah

Themes for a Conversation on Race and Gender in International Human Rights Law

53

(14)

Celina Romany

Comparative Analysis of Women's Issues: Toward a Contextualized Methodology

67

(14)

Antoinette Sedillo Lopez

Feminismes sans Frontieres? The Cuban Challenge---Women, Equality, and Culture

81

(14)

Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol

Women (Under) Development: Poor Women of Color in the United States and the Right to Development

95

(20)

Hope Lewis

PART 2 Third World within the First: On Being ``Othered''

Motherhood and Work in Cultural Context: One Woman's Patriarchal Bargain

115

(14)

Devon W. Carbado

Discrimination in New Zealand: A Personal Journey

129

(12)

Mai Chen

African Women in France: Immigration, Family, and Work

141

(19)

Judy Scales-Trent

Filthy, Old, and Ugly: Gypsy Women from Serbia

160

(19)

Zorica Mrsevic

PART 3 From Pathbreakers to Founding Mothers: Historical Perspectives

Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War

179

(13)

Mary L. Dudziak

United States Foreign Policy and Goler Teal Butcher

192

(12)

J. Clay Smith, Jr.

Founding Mothers and Contemporary Latin American Constitutions: Colombian Women, Constitution Making, and the New Constitutional Court

204

(17)

Martha I. Morgan

Monica Maria Alzate Buitrago

PART 4 Human Rights Confronts Culture, Custom, and Religion

Deconstructing Patriarchal Jurisprudence in Islamic Law: A Faithful Approach

Azizah Y. al-Hibri

221

(204)

For the Sake of the Country, for the Sake of the Family: The Oppressive Impact of Family Registration on Women in Japan

234

(17)

Taimie L. Bryant

Female Infanticide in China: The Human Rights Specter and Thoughts toward (An)Other Vision

251

(9)

Sharon K. Hom

Bridges and Barricades: Rethinking Polemics and Intransigence in the Campaign against Female Circumcision

260

(15)

Leslye Amede Obiora

Uneasy Alliances and Solid Sisterhood: A Response to Professor Obiora's ``Bridges and Barricades''

275

(10)

Isabelle R. Gunning

Families, Fatherlessness, and Women's Human Rights: An Analysis of the Clinton Administration's Public Housing Policy as a Violation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

285

(18)

Lisa A. Crooms

PART 5 Violence against Women: Family Terrorism, Rape, and Sexual Harassment

Violence against Aboriginal Women in Australia: Possibilities for Redress within the International Human Rights Framework

303

(14)

Penelope E. Andrews

Domestic Violence in Ghana: An Initial Step

317

(15)

Rosemary Ofeibea Ofei-Aboagye King

A Critical Race Feminist Conceptualization of Violence: South African and Palestinian Women

332

(15)

Adrien Katherine Wing

Puerto Rico's Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Law: The Limitations of Legislative Responses

347

(15)

Jenny Rivera

Sexual Harassment and Human Rights in Latin America

362

(15)

Gaby Ore-Aguilar

PART 6 The Global Workplace

(Dis)Assembling Rights of Women Workers along the Global Assembly Line: Human Rights and the Garment Industry

377

(15)

Laura Ho

Catherine Powell

Leti Volpp

Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Marketization and the Status of Women in China

392

(17)

Anna M. Han

Still Office Flowers: Japanese Women Betrayed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Law

409

(16)

Kiyoko Kamio Knapp

Selected Bibliography

425

(12)

Contributors

437

(8)

Index

445

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