Feminism after 9/11 Womens Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat [Hardcover]

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 womens bodies.

1: Womens 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.

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 Prl£'