Sara L. McKinnon’s (2016) work on the deployment of female genital mutilation rhetoric to enshrine American paternalistic interventionist practices abroad by otherizing foreign governments and continents was fascinating. It was another reminder that we must look inward when attempting to redress human rights violations (McKinnon, 2016). Through the strategic employment of spatializing language, American foreign policy gains a knight in shining armor mythos (McKinnon, 2016). This halo exempts the US government Continue reading “Insight: McKinnon (2016) “Gender Violence as Global Phenomenon”” →