Expanding The Gaze: Gender And The Politics Of Surveillance

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From sexualized selfies and hidden camera documentaries to the bouncers monitoring patrons at Australian nightclubs, the ubiquity of contemporary surveillance goes far beyond the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection or the proliferation of security cameras on every corner. Expanding the Gaze is a collection of important new empirical and theoretical works that demonstrate the significance of the gendered dynamics of surveillance. Bringing together contributors from criminology, sociology, communication studies, and women’s studies, the eleven essays in the volume suggest that we cannot properly understand the implications of the rapid expansion of surveillance practices today without paying close attention to its gendered nature. Together, they constitute a timely interdisciplinary contribution to the development of feminist surveillance studies. Cover ......Page 1 Title Page ......Page 4 Copyright Page ......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 14 1. Gendered Visions: Reimagining Surveillance Studies......Page 16 Gender, Media, and Surveillance......Page 46 2. Data Doubles and Pure Virtu(e)ality: Headless Selfies, Scopophilia, and Surveillance Porn......Page 48 3. Living in the Mirror: Understanding Young Women’s Experiences with Online Social Networking......Page 69 4. Watch Me Speak: Muslim Girls’ Narratives and Postfeminist Pleasures of Surveillance......Page 97 5. Profiling the City: Urban Space and the Serial Killer Film......Page 116 Surveillance and Gendered Embodiment......Page 146 6. Race, Media, and Surveillance: Sex-Selective Abortions in Canada......Page 148 7. Gendering the HIV “Treatment as Prevention” Paradigm: Surveillance, Viral Loads, and Risky Bodies......Page 169 8. Under the Ban-Optic Gaze: Chelsea Manning and the State’s Surveillance of Transgender Bodies......Page 198 Surveillance and the Gendering of Urban Space......Page 224 9. The Spectacle of Public Sex(uality): Media and State Surveillance of Gay Men in Toronto in the 1970s......Page 226 10. The Surveillance Web: Surveillance, Risk, and Resistance in Ontario Strip Clubs......Page 253 11. Gendering Security: Violence and Risk in Australia’s Night-Time Economies......Page 277 Contributors......Page 303 Index......Page 308