W stands for women : how the George W. Bush presidency shaped a new politics of gender / edited by Michaele L. Ferguson and Lori Jo Marso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferguson, Michaele L., 1973-

Marso, Lori Jo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Government policy--United States.

Women.

Women--Government policy.

United States.

Women's rights--United States.

Women's rights.

Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-.

Bush, George W.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

Politics and government.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Social aspects.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction: feminism, gender, and security in the Bush presidency / Michaele L. Ferguson and Lori J. Marso. Pt. I. Compassionate patriarchy. The allure of authoritarianism: Bush administration ideology and the reconsolidation of patriarchy / R. Claire Snyder

The politics of compassion in th age of AIDS / Karen Zivi. Pt. II. Bush's masculinities. Straight eye for the straight guy / David S. Gutterman and Danielle Regan

W's masculine pseudo-democracy: brothers-in-arms, suicide bombers, and the culture of life / Andrew Feffer. Pt. III. Gendered war logics at home and abroad. The logic of masculine protection: reflections on the current security states / Iris Marion Young

Gender trouble at Abu Ghraib? / Timothy Kaufman-Osborn

Feminists versus feminization: confronting the war logics of the George W. Bush administration / Mary Hawkesworth. Pt. IV. Feminist responses. Feminism and security rhetoric in the post-September 11 Bush administration / Michaele L. Ferguson

Feminism and the complications of freeing the women of Afghanistan and Iraq / Lori J. Marso.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-267) and index.

ISBN:

9780822340645

082234064X

9780822340423

0822340429

OCLC:

82367782