Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights examines the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, artists, and educators engaged in establishing women's rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women's lives. Issues addressed include: trafficking, AIDS, immigration, war-time violence, and legal battles.

Introduction: Women's Lives, Human Rights Part 1: Complicating the Discourses of Victimhood 1. Women and the Genocidal Rape of Women: The Gender Dynamics of Gendered War Crimes 2. Human Trafficking: Why is it Such and Important Women's Issue? 3. Transforming the Representable: Asian Women in Anti-Trafficking Discourse 4. Sin, Salvation, or Starvation? The Problematic Role of Religious Morality in U.S. Anti-Sex Trafficking Policy Part 2: Interrogating Practices of Representation 5. How Not to Give Rape Political Significance 6. Human Trafficking: A Photographic Essay 7. Marjorie Agosín's Poetics of Memory: Human Rights, Feminism, and Literary Forms 8. Digital Storytelling for Gender Justice: Exploring the Challenges of Participation and the Limits of Polyvocality Part 3: Strategies of Engagement 9. 'Sweet Electrical Greetings': Women, HIV, and the Evolution of an Intervention Project in Papua New Guinea 10. Economic Empowerment of Women as a Global Project: Economic Rights in the Neo-Liberal Era 11. Algerian Women in Movement: Three Waves of Feminist Activism 12. Using Law and Education to Make Human Rights Real in Women's Real Lives Part 4: Crossing Legal Landscapes 13. Seduced by Information, Contaminated by Power: Women's Rights as a Global Panopticon 14. Human Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Developing Countries 15. Gender and Customary Mechanisms of Justice in Uganda 16. Policing Bodies and Borders: Women, Prostitution, and the Differential Regulation of U.S. Immigration Policy 17. The Institutionalization of Domestic Violence Against Women in the United States Part 5: Confronting Global Gender Justice 18. Configuring Feminisms, Transforming Paradigms: Reflections from Kum-Kum Bhavnani, from an Interview with Kum-Kum Bhavnani