Centering the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors in New England, Trafficking Trajectories highlights the role of structural violence before, during, and after trafficking. Alicia Peters reveals opportunities for rethinking and broadening the response to trafficking to make it more focused on prevention, and thus more effective.

Senegal’s 1999 ban on female genital cutting (FGC) sparked resistance in Fouta Toro, and opposition to the ban in this region has long seemed unified. This ethnography unravels political tensions surrounding the ban and presents a more complicated reality, where ordinary women and men continue to debate the practice and meaning of FGC.

Drawing on seven years of interviews with women activists across communities in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone, Jennifer Moore shows that when women have full socioeconomic citizenship as well as equitable and respectful partnerships with men, transformative justice can be sustained in postconflict societies.

This book tells the story of the astonishing uptake of International Conflict Feminism (ICF) in the most powerful institutions of global governance. Vasuki Nesiah argues that grappling with ICF’s power is essential to achieving solidarity with dissident feminist traditions with priorities and interests that challenge the dominant world order.

Frontiers of Gender Equality introduces new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and explains the multiple dimensions of gender equality. The book provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national and international contexts and suggests areas of future research.

In Defensive Relativism, Frederick Cowell argues that defensive relativism is a variety of tactical argument used by states to justify ignoring international human rights law and that it is a reflection of unresolved tensions about the nature of what it means for rights to be universal.

Drawing on ethnographic research at counseling centers in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Julia Kowalski reassesses Western liberal feminism’s notions of what it means to have agency and retheorizes the role of interdependence in gendered violence and inequality as not only a site of vulnerability but a potential source of strength.