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Gendered Asylum : Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics /

"In this project, Sara McKinnon examines the contingent and conditional position of gender in asylum cases and charts the implications of the emergence of gender as a political category in U.S. asylum law from the late 1980s to 2012 against the context of broader national and transnational poli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McKinnon, Sara L. (Sara Lynn), 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Transnational publicity, gender-based violence, and Central American Women's asylum cases
  • Fixing bodies fashioning subjects : constructing gender through rhetorics of freedom and choice
  • Standing in her shoes : U.S. asylum policy for Chinese opposing population control
  • The rhetoric and logic of one sex, one gender
  • The reading practices of immigration judges : intersectional invisibility and the segregation of gender and sexuality.