Feminism After 9/11: Women's Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat

ISBN-13: 9781137548696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 161 str.

Carmen Rosally Lugo-Lugo; Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo

Opis

As a result, existing notions of threat combine with 9/11 inflections to shape a specific conception of threat in a context "after" 9/11, and within this context, a feminism "after" 9/11 emerges.

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Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo is Associate Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, USA. Her books with Bloodsworth-Lugo include: A New Kind of Containment: “The War on Terror,” Race, and Sexuality, editors (2009); Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children, also with C. Richard King (2010); Containing (Un)American Bodies:  Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship (2010); and Projecting 9/11: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films (2014).

Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo is Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, USA. She has published in the areas of race, gender, and sexuality; 9/11 discourse and cultural production; film and U.S. popular culture; and contemporary continental social and political philosophy. She is the author of In-Between Bodies:  Sexual Difference, Race, and Sexuality (2007), co-editor of A New Kind of Containment: “The War on Terror,” Race, and Sexuality, with Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (2009), co-author of Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children, with C. Richard King and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (2010), co-author of Containing (Un)American Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship, with Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (2010), and co-editor of Race, Philosophy, and Film, with Dan Flory (2013).