Sexual decoys : gender, race and war in imperial democracy / Zillah Eisenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenstein, Zillah R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights.

Feminism.

Women--Political activity.

Women.

Physical Description:

xviii, 142 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed ; Melbourne : Spinifex Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of the Afghan and Iraq wars, violations at Guantá namo and Abu Ghraib, the 2004 US Presidential election, and hurricane Katrina. She warns that women' s rights rhetoric is being manipulated as a ploy for global dominance and a misogynistic capture of democratic discourse. However, Eisenstein also believes that the radically plural and diverse lives of women will lay the basis for an assault on these fascistic elements. This new politics will both confound and clarify feminisms, and reconfigure democracy for the globe.

Contents:

1 Gender as Politics in Another Form 1

On gendering sex 3

Gendering gender 7

War as coded politics 10

2 Resexing the Wars of/on Terror 17

Re-militarizing daily life 18

Militarizing gender 23

Rape as gendered war 27

Patriarchy, suicide bombers and war 30

Women's rights and the military police 32

Sexual humiliation, gender confusion and Abu Ghraib 33

3 Terrorized and Privatized Democracy 49

Terrorism, torture and the new extremism 51

Documenting democracy's demise 53

Working-class warriors and privatized democracy 58

Corporate terror and war 60

4 Diversifying and Racializing Decoys 68

On racism and power 70

Racism and militarization 71

Affirming action and diversifying for war 72

Surveilling diversity in the academy 75

Katrina and her gendering of race and class 79

Women marching against war in the two gulfs 87

5 Ungendering Feminisms and the Pluralisms of Sex 93

Neoliberal/imperial feminism 97

States and gendered decoys 99

Diversifying while militarizing gender 104

Imperial patriarchal gender 106

Gay marriage and gender fluidity 109

Bush's cowgirls 111

Gendering gender in testosterone elections 117

Dislocating imperial feminism 124

A polysexual ungendering of democratic feminisms 127.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1842778161

9781842778166

184277817X

9781842778173

1876756632

9781876756635

OCLC:

77258343