Karen Zivi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2082679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Zivi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Zivi |
| SIGNATURE | ZIVI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern California University for Professional Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
There Will Be Blood
While feminist scholars have exposed the many ways in which menstruation is used to oppress and marginalize, less attention has been paid to the way menstrual blood is marshalled in practices of political resistance. Drawing on the phenomenological insights of Sara Ahmed, I argue that the intentional public display of menstrual blood harnesses menstrual blood’s abject status to expose and disrupt forms of power. This “mis” or “queer” use of an ab…
Reason enough to hope? The citational practices and disorienting subjects that make menstruation a matter of human rights
Calls to think or embrace an 'after' to rights, particularly ones that suggest adopting alternative ways of thinking or acting politically, often do so because of frustration with the liberal dimensions of rights. In this paper, I draw insights from theories of performativity and feminist phenomenology to show that rights claiming remains a site of contestation over key elements of the liberal tradition. Turning my attention to efforts to make me…
The Promise is in the Practice
Performing the Nation
Public opinion polls, Supreme Court decisions, and changes in federal and state law suggest that the United States is witnessing a support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights today that few would have predicted five years ago. This article offers a critical assessment of that growth as it is manifest in the context of marriage equality. It shows that efforts to advance same-sex marriage rights, while offering an important ch…
Making Rights Claims
Despite the global popularity of rights language, nagging suspicions remain about the compatibility between the practice of rights claiming and democracy. Does rights claiming advances democratic freedom and equality or does it undermine participatory practices while reinforcing dominant forms of power? Should marginalized individuals and groups make rights claims to challenge oppression and injustice or should they seek an alternative language a…
Albin Eser & Hans-Georg Koch (translated by Emily Silverman) Abortion and the Law
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Cultivating Character
The antidemocratic tendencies of rights appear to be numerous. As trumps, rights are denounced for shutting down political debate and undermining the common good. As disciplinary, rights are attacked for reinforcing a politics of exclusion. I argue that an appreciation of the democratic potential of rights requires conceiving of them as political claims, as claims that represent a perspective that we seek to persuade others to adopt and through w…
Feminism and the Politics of Rights
In this essay, I consider whether or not the contestatory potential of rights politics turns on replacing identity claims with universalist ones, and why one might be inclined to urge such a move from “the ontological” to “the political.” While this argument has much to commend it, as it sheds light on the constitutive dimensions of identity-based rights and their depoliticizing tendencies, I remain unconvinced that a better form of rights necess…
Contesting Motherhood in the Age of Aids
I N T H E M I D -I980 s, with licensing of first Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV) antibody test, it became possible to identify individ uals with HIV infection. Around same time, it became clear that approximately one out of four HIV-positive pregnant women, majori ty of whom were poor women of color, would transmit virus to their newborns perinatally (in utero, during delivery, or through breastmilk). As numbers of HIV-infected women rose rap…
Citizenship and Education in Liberal–Democratic Societies
Citizenship and Education in Liberal–Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities. Edited by Kevin McDonough and Walter Feinberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 464p. $60.00. What is the purpose of public education in liberal-democratic societies? Is it to promote a national identity, to champion certain values, or to encourage a respect for difference? Are such goals suitable to the increasing cultur…
Who or What Are We? The Identity Crisis in Feminist Politics Retrieving Experience
Who Is the Guilty Party? Rights, Motherhood, and the Problem of Prenatal Drug Exposure
Laura Gomez, Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Pp. x+256. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. Pp. x+384. $26.00 cloth; $14.00 paper. In 1987, California prosecutors used the state's child support statute to charge Pamela Rae Stewart …
Performing the Nation
Public opinion polls, Supreme Court decisions, and changes in federal and state law suggest that the United States is witnessing a support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights today that few would have predicted five years ago. This article offers a critical assessment of that growth as it is manifest in the context of marriage equality. It shows that efforts to advance same-sex marriage rights, while offering an important ch…
Cultivating Character
The antidemocratic tendencies of rights appear to be numerous. As trumps, rights are denounced for shutting down political debate and undermining the common good. As disciplinary, rights are attacked for reinforcing a politics of exclusion. I argue that an appreciation of the democratic potential of rights requires conceiving of them as political claims, as claims that represent a perspective that we seek to persuade others to adopt and through w…
Feminism and the Politics of Rights
In this essay, I consider whether or not the contestatory potential of rights politics turns on replacing identity claims with universalist ones, and why one might be inclined to urge such a move from “the ontological” to “the political.” While this argument has much to commend it, as it sheds light on the constitutive dimensions of identity-based rights and their depoliticizing tendencies, I remain unconvinced that a better form of rights necess…
Contesting Motherhood in the Age of Aids
I N T H E M I D -I980 s, with licensing of first Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV) antibody test, it became possible to identify individ uals with HIV infection. Around same time, it became clear that approximately one out of four HIV-positive pregnant women, majori ty of whom were poor women of color, would transmit virus to their newborns perinatally (in utero, during delivery, or through breastmilk). As numbers of HIV-infected women rose rap…
Citizenship and Education in Liberal–Democratic Societies
Citizenship and Education in Liberal–Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities. Edited by Kevin McDonough and Walter Feinberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 464p. $60.00. What is the purpose of public education in liberal-democratic societies? Is it to promote a national identity, to champion certain values, or to encourage a respect for difference? Are such goals suitable to the increasing cultur…
Who Is the Guilty Party? Rights, Motherhood, and the Problem of Prenatal Drug Exposure
Laura Gomez, Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Pp. x+256. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. Pp. x+384. $26.00 cloth; $14.00 paper. In 1987, California prosecutors used the state's child support statute to charge Pamela Rae Stewart …
Who Is the Guilty Party? Rights, Motherhood, and the Problem of Prenatal Drug Exposure
Laura Gomez, Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Pp. x+256. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. Pp. x+384. $26.00 cloth; $14.00 paper. In 1987, California prosecutors used the state's child support statute to charge Pamela Rae Stewart …
Citizenship and Education in Liberal–Democratic Societies
Citizenship and Education in Liberal–Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities. Edited by Kevin McDonough and Walter Feinberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 464p. $60.00. What is the purpose of public education in liberal-democratic societies? Is it to promote a national identity, to champion certain values, or to encourage a respect for difference? Are such goals suitable to the increasing cultur…
Who or What Are We? The Identity Crisis in Feminist Politics Retrieving Experience
Feminism and the Politics of Rights
In this essay, I consider whether or not the contestatory potential of rights politics turns on replacing identity claims with universalist ones, and why one might be inclined to urge such a move from “the ontological” to “the political.” While this argument has much to commend it, as it sheds light on the constitutive dimensions of identity-based rights and their depoliticizing tendencies, I remain unconvinced that a better form of rights necess…
Contesting Motherhood in the Age of Aids
I N T H E M I D -I980 s, with licensing of first Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV) antibody test, it became possible to identify individ uals with HIV infection. Around same time, it became clear that approximately one out of four HIV-positive pregnant women, majori ty of whom were poor women of color, would transmit virus to their newborns perinatally (in utero, during delivery, or through breastmilk). As numbers of HIV-infected women rose rap…
Albin Eser & Hans-Georg Koch (translated by Emily Silverman) Abortion and the Law
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Cultivating Character
The antidemocratic tendencies of rights appear to be numerous. As trumps, rights are denounced for shutting down political debate and undermining the common good. As disciplinary, rights are attacked for reinforcing a politics of exclusion. I argue that an appreciation of the democratic potential of rights requires conceiving of them as political claims, as claims that represent a perspective that we seek to persuade others to adopt and through w…
Making Rights Claims
Despite the global popularity of rights language, nagging suspicions remain about the compatibility between the practice of rights claiming and democracy. Does rights claiming advances democratic freedom and equality or does it undermine participatory practices while reinforcing dominant forms of power? Should marginalized individuals and groups make rights claims to challenge oppression and injustice or should they seek an alternative language a…
Performing the Nation
Public opinion polls, Supreme Court decisions, and changes in federal and state law suggest that the United States is witnessing a support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights today that few would have predicted five years ago. This article offers a critical assessment of that growth as it is manifest in the context of marriage equality. It shows that efforts to advance same-sex marriage rights, while offering an important ch…
The Promise is in the Practice
Reason enough to hope? The citational practices and disorienting subjects that make menstruation a matter of human rights
Calls to think or embrace an 'after' to rights, particularly ones that suggest adopting alternative ways of thinking or acting politically, often do so because of frustration with the liberal dimensions of rights. In this paper, I draw insights from theories of performativity and feminist phenomenology to show that rights claiming remains a site of contestation over key elements of the liberal tradition. Turning my attention to efforts to make me…
There Will Be Blood
While feminist scholars have exposed the many ways in which menstruation is used to oppress and marginalize, less attention has been paid to the way menstrual blood is marshalled in practices of political resistance. Drawing on the phenomenological insights of Sara Ahmed, I argue that the intentional public display of menstrual blood harnesses menstrual blood’s abject status to expose and disrupt forms of power. This “mis” or “queer” use of an ab…
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