Societies Without Borders. Human Rights and the Social Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 1

Special Issue on Gender and Human Rights

Edited by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, and Mark Frezzo

Book Review Editor, Tugrul Keskin

Film Review Editor, LaDawn Haglund

Editorial Assistant Erin Cournoyer

Articles

MONICA L. MELTON, SPELMAN COLLEGE

African American Women, HIV/AIDS, and Human Rights in the US

BARRET KATUNA & DAVITA SILFEN GLASBERG, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Rules vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, and the Right to Housing in the Shelter System

ROSEANNE NJIRU, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Political Battles on Women’s Bodies: Post-Election Conflicts and Violence Against Women in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Kenya

DANIELA JAUK, UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ

Insiderness, Outsiderness, and Situated Accessibility – How Women Activists Navigate UN’s Commission on the Status of Women

Notes From the Field

EMMI BEVENSEE, THE SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAINING

Transwomen, the Prison-Industrial Complex, and Human Rights: Neoliberalism and Trans-Resistance

SUSAN C. PEARCE, EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

Pride in Istanbul

Book Reviews

MANISHA DESAI, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Review of Edges of Global Justice: The World Social Forum and Its “Others” by Janet M. Conway

ANNIE ISABEL FUKUSHIMA, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Review of The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking by Joel Quirk

NICOLE FOX, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

Review of Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory by Rene Lemarchand (Editor)

Film Review

BETH WILLIFORD, MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

Review of Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth Directed by Frauke Sandig and Eric Black