FEMINISM AFTER 9/11 : womens bodies as cultural and political threat

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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 threat in a context “after” 9/11, and within this context, a feminism “after” 9/11 emerges. This contextualized feminism would have to develop its analysis within the frame of a society fundamentally altered by the events of 9/11, including its ideological aftermath, by foregrounding pertinent social categories as they interplay with women’s bodies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Women’s Bodies and Feminism “After” 9/11 (Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Carmen Rosally Lugo-Lugo)....Pages 1-23 The Gendered and Racialized Threat of First Lady Michelle Obama (Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Carmen Rosally Lugo-Lugo)....Pages 25-45 Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Carmen Rosally Lugo-Lugo)....Pages 47-68 Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Threat of “Anchor/Terror Babies” (Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Carmen Rosally Lugo-Lugo)....Pages 69-89 Sexual(ized) Terrorist Threats in an Age of Marriage Equality (Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Carmen Rosally Lugo-Lugo)....Pages 91-112 (Trans)Gender Threats in a 9/11 Era (Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Carmen Rosally Lugo-Lugo)....Pages 113-135 The “War on Women” and the 9/11 Project (Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Carmen Rosally Lugo-Lugo)....Pages 137-154 Back Matter ....Pages 155-161