Affirming Women’s Rights Elizabeth Martínez identifies women as key to combating the right-wing assault on equality of opportunity. To date, an estimated six million women have benefited from affirmative action policies on the job. Some five million “minorities” have benefited, a figure that includes women. Although women of color have experienced more meager gains relative […]
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Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, and Lisa Rofel
Reflections on the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing and Huairou, 1995 This is a report on the fourth world conference on women held in Beijing and Huairou in September 1995. Much of the coverage in the United States used the occasion of the conference to portray China as the nemesis of capitalist democracy. Women’s […]
Janet Gottschalk
Cairo to Beijing: Disaster Averted? Janet Gottschalk’s article traces steps in “the long and difficult journey toward a world of equality development and peace” and describes the events leading up to and the outcome of the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. Gottschalk’s perspective echoes the theme of a […]
Regina L. Martinez
Beyond Mexico’s Woman: Negotiating Gender and Race in Dominant Narratives of Nation In this article, Martinez looks at how gender, race, and language can be counterhegemonic through narratives that break national and dichotomous constructions, i.e., Mexican or “American” (US). Benjamin focuses primarily on students’ narratives. gender, race, language Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 2 […]
Rita Maran
After the Beijing Women’s Conference: What Will Be Done? In two of the largest overlapping global gatherings ever held, 47,000 individuals attended the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) and its parallel event, the Non-Governmental Organizations’ Forum on Women (NGO Forum) in China in September 1995. The FWCW, a government-to-government formal conference, was […]
Vol. 18-3 Attica: 1971-1991 — A Commemorative Issue
This issue provides a retrospective on the Attica rebellion, an assessment of prisoner struggles in the United States, Canada, England and Wales, and Japan since 1971, and thoughts on a new penology for the 1990s. It is of enduring historical value. TABLE OF CONTENTS Attica: The “Bitter Lessons” Forgotten? Robert P. Weiss, Editor [free pdf […]
Vol. 44-1: Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security
Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security edited by Robert Werth This special issue highlights the growth of ethnographic examinations of penal governance across multiple disciplines, emphasizing the possibilities and the potential blind spots of ethnography as a methodology for studying penality. By analyzing phenomena as varied as pre-trial incarceration, parole and reentry, female […]
Vol. 44-2/3: Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State
Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State edited by Alessandro De Giorgi & Benjamin Fleury-Steiner This special issue aims to provide a cartography of some of the forms of social suffering experienced by marginalized and oppressed populations in the US carceral state. The contributors extend their gaze beyond the prison and its ancillary institutions […]
Vol. 45-1: Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State
Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State edited by Michael Hallett This special issue of Social Justice expands previous editions’ explorations of emancipatory justice and incarceration. The issue begins with the premise that addressing structural violence is the greatest single challenge to establishing mechanisms of emancipatory justice. Looking beyond the prison walls, contributors identify areas in which new […]
Vol. 46-1 – Unsettling Debates: Women and Peace Making
Unsettling Debates: Women and Peace Making edited by Suzy Kim, Gwyn Kirk, and M. Brinton Lykes This issue presents a critical exploration of women’s past contributions and future potential in making peace. Adopting a transnational perspective, the contributors highlight the various ways in which women seeking a just peace have organized against militarized patriarchy and its forms […]
Vol. 49-1/2
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Eddie Ellis, Credible Messengers, and the Neoliberal Imagination of Anti-Violence David C. Brotherton Police Abolitionism: A Marxist Critique Howard Ryan Abolitionist Entanglements with Guards: Engagements to Deepen Analysis and Organizing Erica R. Meiners Uncomfortable Kinship: An Ethnography of the Professional World of Gang Experts and Street Outreach Workers in […]