Excavating Gender in Women's Early Claims to Political Asylum in the United States

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This essay examines how gender is figured as a discourse of U.S. political asylum through women's early gendered claims to political asylum. Using an archeology methodology, I explore how gender comes to matter discursively and materially in asylum courtrooms. Specifically, I find that sexual difference is used as an organizing schema for sexual violence, political access comes through assumed relationships to men with power, and women's subjectivities are figured as personal and private by court officials.View full textDownload full textKeywordsEl Salvador, legal rhetoric, personal/political, private/public, sexual difference, sexual violenceRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true,"ui_click":true}; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2010.507540