Feminism after 9/11 : womens bodies as cultural and political threat / Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo.

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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Main Authors: Lugo-Lugo, Carmen R. (Author), Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series:Breaking feminist waves.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Women's Bodies and Feminism "After" 9/11; Women's Bodies as 9/11 Threat; Outlining the 9/11 Project; The White Racial Frame, Systemic Gendered Racism, and the 9/11 Project; Intersectional Feminism; Feminism and U.S. Security in a 9/11 Era; Focusing on 9/11 and the Reification Question; Chapter Progression; Works Cited; Chapter 2 The Gendered and Racialized Threat of First Lady Michelle Obama; Black Female Bodies and Historical Representations; The Historical First Lady and the First Black First Lady; Michelle Obama's Body and Mediating Stereotypes.
  • Reconfiguring the MammyReconfiguring the Jezebel; Conclusion: "I Want to Kill Her"; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor; The "Wise Latina" Comment; Sotomayor and the 9/11 Project; Sotomayor's Temperament Problem; Sotomayor as Immigrant; Sotomayor as Foreigner; Sotomayor as Non-White; The Case of Elena Kagan; Conclusion: "Violent Puerto Rican Terrorists"; Works Cited; Chapter 4 Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Threat of "Anchor/Terror Babies"; Immigrants as Terrorist(ic) Threats; Immigrants as Gender Neutral and Terrorists as Men.
  • Public Rhetoric and the "Terror" of Latina ImmigrantsBaby (Terrorist) Threats; Conclusion: A Country Terrorized by Babies; Works Cited; Chapter 5 Sexual(ized) Terrorist Threats in an Age of Marriage Equality; Threatening Gayness and the Cold War as Historical Backdrop; Same-Sex Couples/Marriage and 9/11 Terrorist Conflations; 9/11 Inflections and Gay Bodies: Example 1; 9/11 Inflections and Gay Bodies: Example 2; Conclusion: The (Terrorist) Threat of Same-Sex Couples/Marriage; Works Cited; Chapter 6 (Trans)Gender Threats in a 9/11 Era; The Case of Amanda Simpson; The First; The Former.
  • The Female-BodiedTransgender Bodies and Terrorism; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 7 The "War on Women" and the 9/11 Project; The "War on Women"; Context for the "War on Women"; Terrorist(ic) Conflations; More Rhetorical Approaches; The Inflated Climate of Fear; A Time After 9/11?; Feminism in the Present Moment; Works Cited; Bibliography; Index.