Screen LibraryFeminism after 9/11 : Women s Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat /
This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage, control, and contain specific bodies with respect to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship status. Infl...
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Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Breaking Feminist Waves
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54582-4 |
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This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage, control, and contain specific bodies with respect to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship status. Inflections presented via 9/11 come into play against a backdrop shaped by established patterns of behavior and attitudes toward women and particular groups of people within an American landscape. As a result, existing notions of threat combine with 9/11 inflections to shape a specific conception of t |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XI,129pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781137545824 |
| Index Number: | HM623 |
| CLC: | C913.68-05 |
| Contents: | 1: Women s Bodies and Feminism After 9/11 -- 2: The Gendered and Racialized Threat of First Lady Michelle Obama -- 3: Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor -- 4: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Threat of Anchor/Terror Babies -- 5: Sexual(ized) Terrorist Threats in an Age of Marriage Equality -- 6: (Trans)Gender Threats in a 9/11 Era -- 7: The War on Women and the 9/11 Project.- Conclusion.-. |