Part 1: Gender, Agency and Practice 1. Overview 2. The Fallacy of Gender-Neutrality 3. Agency and Practice Part 2: Exercising Human Rights 4. Visual Methodology 5. Visualising Women’s Agency: Amnesty International’s 2004 Campaign Stop Violence against Women 6. Not in Our Backyard: Visual Agency in the Oka Crisis 7. Reflections
Biography
Robin Redhead is Senior Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University
"In this excellent book, Robin Redhead explores some very big questions with a commendable thoughtful subtlety and methodological rigour. Her discussion of why human rights are not universally empowering - the ubiquitous question for human rights advocates – is particularly useful and makes a significant contribution to the field of human rights studies." --Damien Short, University of London
"Focusing on the visual, Redhead insightfully demonstrates why human rights, in theory and practice, remain hotly contested. The two fascinating case studies, both with undiminished contemporary relevance, well illustrate the intricate but volatile mix of gender, identity, subjectivity, agency and power which makes human rights so vital, yet so elusive. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in human rights." --Marysia Zalewski, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
