Abolition Act 185
Abu Ghraib 32, 38, 44; Charles Graner 38, Lynndie England 38, Megan Ambuhl 38, Sabrina Harman 38
Abulhawa, Susan: Mornings in Jenin 13, 184; see also Chapter 2
Abu-Lughod, Lila 8, 42, 43, 46
Accord of Oslo 104
adi bapa 134
adivasi 130
Afghan women 30–1; see also masculinities; see also radioactive uranium
African National Congress 91, 184, 186; ANC women 189; Freedom Charter 201
Agrarian Reform Law 103
AIDS Service Organization 202
Ailleret, Charles 169
Al-Anfal campaign 25
Al-Aslami, Salah 43
Al-Dossary, Jumah 42
Al-Haj, Sami 41
Ali, Ben 160
Al-Janaby, A’beer Qassim Hamza 45
Al-Janabi, Sabrin
Al-Qeisi, Ali 46
Anarchists Against the Wall 90
ANC: women activists 16
Anglo-American exceptionalism: George Bush 213, Osama bin Laden 213, Sadaam Hussein 213, see also cases: Rasul vs Bush, Hamdan vs Rumsfeld
Anglo-Boer War 185
Apartheid Wall 90
Apel, Dora: Imagery in Lynching; see also lynching
Arab feminists 67; see also Eastern Women’s Conference in Cairo; see also Sharawi
Arab-Israeli War of 1967 66, 89, 90; Six Day War 78, 1967 War 78
Arab Resistance of 1936–39 67
Árbenz Guzmán, Jacobo 103
archival violence 200
Archives Act of 1962 199
Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958
Asad, Talal 85
Asian-African Conference 11
Atlantic Highway 103
Attorney General John Ashcroft 53
Bahujan Samaj Party 151
Balfour Declaration of 1917 13, 64
Balfour-Paul, Glencairn 24
Bantustan system: Bantu Education Act of 1953 186, homelands 186
Barbie, Klaus 166
Basic Laws 71
Ba’th Party 24
Battle of Algiers 161; Battle of Algiers and women 168
Baz, Suheib 46
Begin, Menachem: The Revolt 69
Behmai massacre 148
Bendjedid, Chadli 162, 171, 173
Bengal famine of 1943 133
Berlin Wall 98
Bernadotte, Folke 63
Beverley, John 107
bhakti 150
Bhattacharya, Gargi 8
Biehl, Amy 182; see also enemy: relations of enmity
Bill of Rights 201
Bin Laden, Osama 17, 20–1, 32, 53, 213; see also Anglo-American exceptionalism
bio-determinism and queering reconciliation 219–220
biopolitics 54; see also sovereignty; see also exceptionalism
Black (or Natives) Land Act of 1913 185–6
bombing: Al-Amriyah 43, Hamas 214, Ramadi 44, Six Day War 78–9
border-crossing feminist 15, 131
Bouhrid, Djamila 164, 165, 167
Boumedienne, Houari 171
Boupacha, Djamila and Gisèle Halimi: Djamila Boupacha 15; see also Chapter 5
Bouteflika, Abdelaziz 162
boycott: Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement 16, 90, 203, 214; British Boycott Movement 203; England Cricket Counsel 203
British Defense Regulations Act of 1945 82
British Permanent Settlement Act of 1793 133
British White Paper of 1922 13
Brothers and Others 53
Burgos-Debray, Elisabeth 100, 106
Bush, George H. W. 100
Bush, George W. 27, 29, 30, 40; Decision Points 35, 36
Butler, Judith 71, 75; see also frames of recognition; see also grievability; see also precarious life
Cabrera, Manuel Estrada 102
casbah 163
cases: Hamdan vs Rumsfeld 213; Korematsu vs United States 40; Rasul vs Bush 41; United States vs Ahira et al. 34–5
castas 101; see also criollos; see also latinos/mestizos
caste 11; caste votes 148; cast war 145
Castillo Armas, Carlos 103
Chahine, Youssef: 11’09’’ 01—September 11 52
checkpoints 69, 74, 80–2, 96–7
Cheney, Dick 36
Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929 140
children: children’s human rights 113, 114; Palestinian children 75, 77–8; radicalizing childhood 117
Chomsky, Noam 54
Churchill, Winston 64
Clear Channel 48
Clinton, Bill 100
code of alliance 141
collective Indian criminality 136
Colonial rape laws: Article 375 of the Indian Penal Code 141
Combatant Status Review Tribunal 41
Commission: 9/11 36
Commission on Gender Equality: Thenjiwe Mtintso 189
communism 11, 47, 98; see also Red Scare; see also Soviet Union
Communist Party of Guatemala 103
comparative sexual power: American femininities and American masculinities 211; homophobia and misogynism 211; Islamofascism 211; Muslim men and Muslim women 211; see also indigenous masculinity and ladino masculinity; see also indigenous women’s bodies; see also northern masculinities and southern masculinities
conquistadores 99
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 110
Cornejo, Cecilia: I Wonder What You Will Remember of September 51; see also Pinochet
Countdown with Keith Olbermann 36
Criminal Castes and Tribes Act of 1911 14, 133; Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 133
criollos 101
Currier, Erin 151
Cuvier, Georges: Curiosities of Natural History 196
Dalhousie 132
Dalits 14, 130; see also Dalit self-determination; see also Dalit woman
Dalit self-determination 146
Dalton, Trish: Bordering on Treason
dangerous locations of women’s empowerment 6
daughtering 114
Davis, Angela 8
death squads: Mano Blanco 103
Declaration of Friendly Relations 106
democracy 63
Department of Defense 40
Detainees: women 43, 82; also see terrorist
Devi, Mahasweta: “Draupadi” 135–7, 143, 145, 147
Devi, Phoolan 15, 123, 160, 178, 211; see also Chapter 4
Devi, Phoolan, Marie-Thérèse Cuny, and Paul Rambali: The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman’s Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend 15; see also Chapter 4
Dhingra, Madan Lal 146
Dilawar 40
Dirty War in Argentine: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo 116
Discrimination on the Basis of Work and Descent 131
Dixie Chicks 49
Dixie Chicks Destruction Day 49
Djebar, Assia: Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War 15; see also Chapter 5
Dowry Prohibition Act of 1961 158
Dutch East India Company 185
Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro 118
Eastern Women’s Conference in Cairo (1938) 67
ecological activism 14
Eisenstein, Zillah 8
Emergency law 70
Emergency Regulations of the British Mandate 71
enemy 131; enemy and intellectuals 175; enemy combatant 12, 41; postcolonial enemy 145; relations of enmity 184
Enlightenment 56
ethno-nationalism 114
Even, Anat and Ada Ushpiz: Asurot 89
exceptionalism 54, 170, 204; exception/emergency 131; emergency 161; see also Anglo-American exceptionalism
family: family order 139; extended family 139
Fatah 67
FBI 54
femininities: militarized American femininity 38; see also comparative sexual power
feminist legal critical studies 114
First War of Indian Independence 132
forensic anthropology 14, 108–9
Forest Town Raid 200
Foucault, Michel 30
Fourth Geneva Convention 21, 110
Fox, Eytan: The Bubble 81
frames of recognition 71
Gacemi, Baya and anonymous: I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist 15; see also Chapter 5
Gandhi 130
gauna 140
Gay and Lesbian Archives 199
Gay Association of South Africa 202
gay decade 68
Gaza 63
gender apartheid 189
German women 30
Global finance and apartheid 185
Gold Star Mothers 33
graffiti 87
green feminism: ecological degradation 115, 120; ecological justice 116; corporate patriarchy 115,
grievability 71
Group Areas Act of 1950 186
Guatemala: Commission for Historical Clarification 16, 216; Mutual Support Group 104, 108
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity 104
Gujarat: genocide against Muslims 129
HaAguda 68
habeas corpus 41, 70, 117, 128, 213; see also Anglo-American exceptionalism
Habibullah 40
Hamid, Mohsin 21
Hammadi, Sa’Dun 25
Hersh, Seymour 34
hijacker-as-woman 84; facial reconstruction 84
Hindu personal laws 141
Hindutva feminism 149
Hitler 30
homines sacri 54
homoimperialism 69
homosocial femininity 145
honor killings 45
Hottentot Venus: racial inferiority 196, savage female sexuality 196; women militants and Hottentot Venus 196–7
House International Relations Committee 54
Hudson Valley Peace Brigade 51
Ighilahriz, Louisette: Algérienne 163
Immigration and Naturalization Services 54
Immorality Act of 1927 200
Immorality Amendment Act of 1950 186
imperialist feminism 31, 39, 46
India: First War of Independence in 1857 14, Tebhaga Uprising (1946–7) 15, Telengana People’s Struggle (1948–51) 15, Naxalite movement (1967–71) 15, Mandal Commission 16, 216, 217
indigeneity 10
indigenous feminism 105; see also transnational feminist praxis
indigenous masculinity and ladino masculinity 212
indigenous self-determination 105–6
indigenous women’s bodies 212
International Alliance of Women 67
International Criminal Court and state sovereignty 214–15
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 110
International Decade for the Indigenous Peoples 100
International Monetary Fund 120
International Railways of Central America 102
International Women’s Day in 1985 165
International Year of the Indian Peoples 100
international human rights law: rape 14, war-rape orphans 14
Iran-Iraq War 25
Iraq: Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988 25
Iraqi women 28, 39, 43; see also radioactive uranium
Irish Republican Army 80
Islamo-fascism 73; see also comparative sexual power
Islamophobia 9, 37, 54, 178; see also Muslims, Islamo-fascism
Islamic Salvation Army 164
Islamic Salvation Front 91, 162, 172
Israeli apartheid 70
Israeli Defense Force 71
Israeli exceptionalism 13, 62, 79, 91; South Africa, Rhodesia, French-Algeria, United States, Canada, Australia
Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 66, 85
Israeli state formation 70–1; see also David Lloyd
Israeli War of 1973 66
Jacir, Annemarie: The Dreams of a Nation 88
Jamal, Amaney 8
Joburg Pride Parade in Johannesburg 202
Johnson, Lyndon 66
José Arévalo, Juan 103
Justo Barrios, Rufino 102
Kali 136, 146, 147, 150; Tantric and Shaktic practices 150
Kapur, Shekhar: The Bandit Queen 151
Karzai, Hamid 21
Kashmir: Kashmiri separatism
Keith, Toby 49
Khader, Naim 63
Khaled, Leila: My People Shall Live 13, 183; see also Chapter 2
Khan, Mahvish: My Guantanamo Diary 12; see also Chapter 1
Kheira 171
Khmer Rouge 166
Kipling, Rudyard: “The White Man’s Burden” 19, Spanish-American War 19
Kissinger, Henry 25, 215; see also Sa’Dun Hammadi
KRS-One 49; “Real Terrorism” 49
Kurdish women 26
Lakshmibai of Jhansi 132
land 6, 10, 13, 14, 56, 63, 69, 70–1, 76–7, 99, 101–3, 118–20, 133–5, 142, 183, 185, 186, 191–2; olive plantations 76, banana plantation 102; see also spacio-cide
La Pointe, Ali 163; see also Battle of Algiers
latinos/mestizos 101
Lauer, Matt 35
Laws of Manu 141
Leftover Crack 48; Fuck World Trade 48
León Carpio, Ramiro de 104
liberal humanist individualism 171, 217
literature 143
Lloyd, David 70–1; see also Israeli state formation
Lord Moyne 66
Lucas Garcia, Romeo 103
lynching 12, 32, 38, 54; Rubin Stacey 38; see also comparative sexual power
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 141; see also colonial rape laws; see also Macaulay’s marital laws
Macaulay’s marital laws 141
Macdonald White Paper of 1938 13, 65
Madres Contra La Guerra 51
Magona, Sindiwe: Mother to Mother 16; see also Chapter 6
Mahal, Hazrat 132
Mahmood Mamdani: Good Muslims, Bad Muslims, 29–30, see also monstrosity; see also South Africa
Maines, Natalie 49
Malom Massacre 130
Manipur: People’s Liberation Army of Manipur 130, see also Malom Massacre, see also Irom Sharmila, see also Thangjam Manorama
Manorama, Thangjam 130
masculinities: Afghan masculinity 31; American masculinities 31, 33, 38; Arab masculinities 34; Euro-American masculinities 34; GIA masculinity; terrorist masculinities 41; see also queer; see also queering; see also comparative sexual power
Massad, Joseph 87
maternal abuse 139
maternal genetics 114
Mayan woman 109
McCaskell, Tim 202
McClintock, Anne 36
Menchú, Rigoberta: I, Rigoberta Menchú 14; see also Chapter 3; Crossing Borders 14; see also Chapter 3
menstrual blood 42
military feminism 162
monstrosity 30, 32, 44, 84, 142
Morgan, Robin: The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism
mother 44, 118, 173–4; see also mothers of the anti-apartheid revolution 204; see also Gold Star Mothers; see also Madres Contra la Guerra; see also Nombulelo Elizabeth Makhubu and TRC
Mother Earth 118
Mousovi, Ali Shah
Muslims 29–30, 32, 47, 53; see also Gujarat; see also Islamophobia
Muslim women 31–2, 39, 56; see also comparative sexual power
Naber, Nadine 8
Nair, Mira 53
Najibullah 21
Nasser, Kemal 63
National Coordination for Change and Democracy 175
national constitutions 121
National Liberation Front 91, 160, 162
National Reconciliation Commission 104
national security state 69, 73, 106, 131
native informant 108
Naxalite movement 134
Nazi concentration camps 12
Nazi women guards: Irma Grese, Dorothea Binz, Juana Bormann
Netanyahu, Benjamin 68
Nizam 134
Nombulelo Elizabeth Makhubu and TRC 187–8
Non-Aligned Movement 11
northern masculinities and southern masculinities 219
Nuremberg 17, 212–13; Tokyo 213; Axis powers and Allied powers 213; Geneva Conventions of 1949 212; victor’s justice 213; see also war crimes
Nusrat, Haji 41
Obama, Barack 100; United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation 214 Act of 2012
One in Nine Campaign 202
Organisation of Lesbians and Gays Against Oppression 201
Ortiz, Dianna 99, 112; The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth 100
Ouedraogo, Idrissa 53
Palestinian diaspora: Lebanon 77, 86
Palestinian Liberation Organization 66, 72, 85
Palestinian Right to Return 78
Palestine Society of the School of Oriental and African Studies 62
Palestinian women: laboring woman 73, 75, 79, 83
Palmach 66
Parmar, Pratibha 203
Pass Laws 186
Patai, Raphael: The Arab Mind, 34
Patriot Act 53
penalization of poverty 140
Permanent Settlement Act of 1793 14
Permanent Transnational Court for Gender Justice 218
personal property 140
Persons of Interest 54
personal status code: National Union of Women 164, 171; 1984 Family Code 164
Pilger, John: Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies in the War On Terror 52
pinkwatching: PQBDS, Al-Qaws, Pinkwatching Israel 68
Pinochet 17, 51, 215; see also Richard Nixon, see also Henry Kissinger
Plan de Sánchez massacre 109
Pontecorvo, Gillo: Battle of Algiers 16, 163, 176; Battle of Algiers and women 164
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 67
Posters 87
precarious life 72
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 186
Puar, Jasbir 7, 47, 68, 76, 178
Puar, Jasbir and Amit Rai 30, 32; see also Foucault; see also monstrosity 30
Qibya 63
queer 5, 32, 149; see also queering; see also queerphobia; see also queer rights; see also HaAguda; see also checkpoint; see also Palestinian queers
queer apartheid 202
Queers Against Apartheid 202
queering 34–5, 37; hyper-queering 47; queering Dalit women’s bodies 145; gender crossing spectacle 147
queerphobia 73; see also comparative sexual power
queer rights 63, 81, 91; see also homoadversarial
radioactive uranium 43
Rage Against the Machine 48; “Killing in the Name” 48
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 149
Razack, Sherene 7
Reconstruction of the Historical Memory of Guatemala 104, 110
red feminism: family 115, 128; see also private property 115
Red Scare 47
Refiguring the Archive: destruction of public records in South Africa 198; sanitization of official memory 198
refugees 43, 78; refugee camps 69, 77–9
Rent Act of 1859 133
Report of the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board 100
Revenue system 133
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan 23
revolutionary maternity 14
Rio Negro massacre 108
Ríos Montt, Efraín 104, 215; see also Ronald Reagan
Riverbend: Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq 12; see also Chapter 1; Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq 12; see also Chapter 1
romantic love between comrades 194
rupture defense 165; see also Jacques Vèrges
Russell Tribunal on Palestine 71, 203, 218
Sachs, Albie 201
Sadaawi, Nawal 175
Samajwadi Party 151
Sandinista revolution 98
Sanford, Victoria 108
saving 7, 9, 11, 22, 31, 32, 35, 39, 42–46, 219; see also Muslim women
School of the Americas 55, 100
Schroeder, Barbet: Terror’s Advocate 16, 161; see also Jacques Vèrges
Second World War: Japanese War crimes 34–5, see also cases: United States vs Ahira et al. case; see also Nuremberg
Sen, Mala: India’s Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi 15; see also Chapter 4
Separate Amenities Act of 1953 186
Serrano Elías, Jorge Antonio 104
Sétif 161
settler colonialism 62, 70; see also Settler Colonial Studies; see also Israeli state formation; see also Israeli apartheid
Settler Colonial Studies; Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine 62
sexual violence: biological warfare 114; castration 86, 147; “corrective” rape 200; female militants 195; forced impregnation 110; gang rape 142, marital rape 140; military rape 162–3; national security rape 109–110; rape 43, 45, 86, 106, 134, 144; sexual humiliation 142, 145
Sharawi, Huda 67
Sharon, Ariel 85
Sharmila, Irom 130
Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 191
Sheehan, Cindy 51
Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Commitee 202
Sinclair, Ingrid: Flame 195
Shimon 68
Simelane, Eudy 200
Singh Sodhi, Balbir 47
Sitthiket, Vasan 151
Sleeman, William 135
Sjoberg, Laura 73
social memory of terror 112
Somoza military dictatorship 98
Sori, Soni 130
South Asian: Pakistani 53; Sikhs 2, 47; Khalistani separatism 129
South Africa: Truth and Reconciliation Commission 16, 216; TRC and Antjie Krog 190, see also Rita Mazibuko 190; see also TRC, bodily integrity rights and subsistence rights 188, ANC women 189; see also Nombulelo Elizabeth Makhubu and TRC;
South Africa Bill 185
South African History Archive 199
South African youth 183, 191; exploitation of youth power 193; lost generation 193
sovereignty 54, 70, 76, 106, 219
Soviet Afghanistan 21; see also Pakistan
Soviet Union 98
Soweto Uprising: Hector Pieterson, Sam Nzima, Mbuyisa Makhubu 187; Soweto and War on Terror 188; Soweto generation 193
Spanish colonization: colonial torture 99
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty 21, 22, 72, 151, 152
Statute of Westminister 185
Stern Gang 63
Stolar, Martin 54
Stoll, David: Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans 106
streets 15
street theater: Saluting the National Erection—Giant Penis Parade 89; see also Dirty War in Argentine
suicide bomber: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) 1, Indo-Sri-Lanka Accord 1
Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 186
suttee 22
Swadeshi 160
Sykes-Picot Agreement 24
Taguba Report 46
Tancredo, Tom 54
Tatchell, Peter 201
Tawil, Raymonda: My Home, My Prison 13, see also Chapter 2
Telengana People’s Struggle 134
terrorism 63–6, 86–7, 130, 131, 161, 170–1, 174; counterterrorism 174; terrorism, law, and justice 165–7, ; terrorism vs war 85; see also Haganah, zIrgun Zwei Leumi, Palmach, Stern Gang; see also Deir Yassin, Gaza, Jenin, Qibya, Sabra, Shantilla, West Bank; see also Folke Bernadotte, Lord Moyne, see also Khmer Rouge 166, see also Rio Negro; see social memory of terror
terrorist 29, 30, 32, 33, 131, 161, 165–7; terrorist corporealities 142; see also Khaled Sheikh Mohammad, Abu Zubaydah, Habibullah, Dilawar, Ali Shah Mousovi, Haji Nusrat, Sami al-haj, Jumah al-Dossary, Balbir Singh Sodhi, Sikh; see also woman terrorist
Terrorism Act of 1967 186
The Coup 48; Party Music’ “Burn Them Prisons” 48
thuggee 135; racialized colonial paranoia 137
Tickell, Alex 8
torture 32, 34–5, 41–2, 99, 117, 118, 161, 168–9, 218; police custodial torture 142; see also comparative sexual power; see also Spanish colonization
trans 4
translocal activism: local and global 198, 214, 215
transnational conversations: Abu Ghraib and India’s caste locations 6, Algeria and India 160, South African and Israeli apartheid 6, Guatemala, Algeria, India 6, War on Terror and Palestine question 10, War on Terror and Algeria 11; transnational public discourse 146, Israel and South Africa; also see International Alliance of Women
transnational feminism 1, 3, 23, 26, 29, 31, 46, 51, 62, 66, 69, 79, 87, 89, 112–113, 146, 151, 169, 170, 174, 175; women of the global north and south 190, 191–2; see also checkpoints, Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace
transnational feminist praxis 83–4, 101, 198; transnational queer 4
TRC archive 199
Tutu, Desmond: ubuntu 216
Tychostup, Lorna 51
Ubico, Jorge 103
unbound feminisms 4
UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (CAT) 35
UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 10, 104, 121
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 121
UN Special Committee on Apartheid 16
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Juan Méndez 37
US LGBTQI Delegation 68
UN Special Committee on Apartheid of 1962 186
UN, US, and apartheid 185
US Women of Color Delegation 68
UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 154
vandalism 87
veil 162; public unveiling 162
Wajda 45
Walker, Alice 203
Waked, Sharif: Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints 13, 63, 81–2
war crimes 212–14; see also Nuremberg; see also Second World War; see also Harry Truman; see also James McDonald; see also Pinochet; see also Rios Montt
weapon of culture 97
weapons 78
Wicomb, Zoe: David’s Story 16; see also Chapter 6; unrepresentability of truth and trauma 195
women’s rights 91
women suicide bombers 84
woman terrorist 69, 73, 121, 131, 171, 218; fidayate (women fighters) 163, 164, 177; women guerrillas: Zohra Drif, Samia Lakhdari, Hassiba Bentbouali 163; see also Battle of Algiers; see also Djamila Bouhrid; see also Kheira; see also South Africa
Women Make Movies 50; Response to Hate 50
World Bank 120
World War II Japanese detainees 12
Wyllie, William Curzon 146
Yacef, Saadi: Souvenirs de la Bataille d’Alger 163, 167
Yishuv 65
Zangana, Haifa: City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance 12; see also Chapter 1
Zubaydah, Abu 37