Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Potential for a Feminist Liberation Psychology in the Advancement of Women's Human Rights -- Section One: Resistance: Understanding Change When Knowledge Is Constructed from "Below". "I survived the war, but how can I survive peace?": Feminist-Based Research on War Rape and Liberation Psychology / Simone Lindorfer and Kirsten Wienberg -- How/Can Psychology Support Low-Income LGBTGNC Liberation? / Michelle Billies -- Critical Reflection of Section One- Silence Kills in "Revolting" Times: Braiding Feminist Activist Scholarship with the Threads of Resistance, Human Rights, and Social Justice / Michelle Fine -- Section Two: Liberation: The Transformation of Social Structures. From "Welfare Queens" to "Welfare Warriors": Economic Justice as a Human Right / Heather E. Bullock -- Integrating Grassroots Perspectives and Women's Human Rights: Feminist Liberation Psychology in Action / Geraldine Moane -- Critical Reflection of Section Two- What Is Psychology's Role in the Project of Liberation and Structural Change? / Abigail J. Stewart -- Section Three: Justice: Praxis Whereby Researchers Work Alongside the Dominated and Oppressed Rather Than Alongside the Dominator or Oppressor. Civic Participation, Prefigurative Politics, and Feminist Organizing in Rural Nicaragua / Anjali Dutt -- The Everyday and the Exceptional: Rethinking Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Garo Hills, India / Urmitapa Dutta -- Critical Reflection of Section Three- Feminist Intersectional Human Rights: Embodying Justice in and Through Transnational Activist Scholarship / M. Brinton Lykes -- Conclusion: Being Bold: Building a Justice-Oriented Psychology of Women's Human Rights / Anjali Dutt -- Index.

"[This book] contributes to the discussion of why women's human rights warrants increased focus in the context of globalization and how psychology can provide the currently missing, but necessary, links between transnational feminism and the discourse on women's human rights and neoliberalism. This volume takes a radically different approach to women's human rights by turning its attention to a variety of disciplines and, as a result, develops new ideas regarding how psychology can be relevant in the study or actualization of women's human rights. By doing so, it makes it very clear for readers as to how activist scholarship can make a unique contribution to the defense of women's rights. Rather than using examples that have been sensationalized throughout academia and advocacy (i.e. genital mutilation), each of this book's contributing authors has used examples (rape, sexual orientation, homelessness, civic participation, violence) of specific human rights violations that occur the world over in their attempt to make the relevance of psychology to this topic more visible to the reader." -- Publisher's website.