Women's Human Rights

Shelly Grabe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She works in partnership with grassroots women's organizations in Nicaragua and Tanzania to privilege the activism and voices of marginalized women in the pursuit of women's human rights. She uses a multi-method approach from within psychology to provide the currently missing, but necessary links between transnational feminism, the discourse on women's human rights and globalization, and the international attention given to women's "empowerment" to help support strategies and interventions aimed at social change by local women. In her academic work, Shelly employs frameworks informed by feminist liberation psychology, human rights discourse, decolonial feminism, and social justice to organize her research, teaching, and outreach. She is the author of Narrating a Psychology of Resistance: Voices of the Compañeras in Nicaragua (Oxford University Press, 2016).

• PrefaceShelly Grabe Introduction: The Potential for a Feminist Liberation Psychology in the Advancement of Women's Human RightsShelly Grabe SECTION ONE - RESISTANCE: Understanding Change When Knowledge is Constructed from 'Below'Shelly Grabe Chapter 1: "I survived the war, but how can I survive peace" Feminist-based Research on War Rape and Liberation PsychologySimone Lindorfer and Kirsten Wienberg Chapter 2: How/Can Psychology Support Low Income LGBTGNC LiberationMichelle Billies CRITICAL REFLECTION OF SECTION ONE - Silence Kills in "Revolting" Times: Braiding Feminist Activist Scholarship with the Threads of Resistance, Human Rights and Social JusticeMichelle Fine SECTION TWO - LIBERATION: The Transformation of Social StructuresShelly Grabe Chapter 3: From "Welfare MothersQueens" to "Welfare Warriors": Economic Justice as a Human RightHeather E. Bullock Chapter 4: Integrating Grassroots Perspectives and Women's Human Rights: Feminist Liberation Psychology in ActionGeraldine 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 OppressorShelly Grabe Chapter 5: Civic Participation, Prefigurative Politics, and Feminist Organizing in Rural NicaraguaAnjali Dutt Chapter 6: The Everyday and the Exceptional: Rethinking Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Garo Hills, IndiaUrmitapa Dutta CRITICAL REFLECTION OF SECTION THREE - Feminist Intersectional Human Rights: Embodying Justice in and through Transnational Activist ScholarshipM. Brinton Lykes Conclusion: Being Bold: Building a Justice-oriented Psychology of Women's Human RightsAnjali Dutt

Women's Human Rights: A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice is a valuable resource for social work practitioners nterested in liberation psychology. Feminist researchers can appreciate the various methodological approaches that are discussed in the discipline of social work and develop new foci on women, empowerment, and human rights in sociology.