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Sexual decoys : gender, race and war in imperial democracy
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"In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her unforgiving indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of th...
"In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her unforgiving indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of the Afghan and Iraq wars, violations at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, the 2004 US Presidential electron, and Hurricane Katrina."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Zillah Eisenstein
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Zed ; Melbourne : Spinifex Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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- xviii, 142 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1842778161, 9781842778166, 184277817X, 9781842778173, 1876756632, 9781876756635
- OCLC
- ocm77258343
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Gender as politics in another form -- On gendering sex -- Gendering gender -- War as coded politics -- 2. Resexing the wars of/on terror -- Re-militarizing daily life -- Militarizing gender -- Rape as gendered war -- Patriarchy, suicide bombers and war -- Women's rights and the military police -- Sexual humiliation, gender confusion and Abu Ghraib -- 3. Terrorized and privatized democracy -- Terrorism, torture and the new extremism -- Documenting democracy's demise -- Working-class warriors and privatized democracy -- Corporate terror and war -- 4. Diversifying and racializing decoys -- On racism and power -- Racism and militarization -- Affirming action and diversifying for war -- Surveilling diversity in the academy -- Katrina and her gendering of race and class -- Women marching against war in the two gulfs -- 5. Ungendering feminisms and the pluralisms of sex -- Neoliberal/imperial feminism -- States and gendered decoys -- Diversifying while militarizing gender -- Imperial patriarchal gender -- Gay marriage and gender fluidity -- Bush's cowgirls -- Gendering gender in testosterone elections -- Dislocating imperial feminism -- A polysexual ungendering of democratic feminisms