W stands for women : how the George W. Bush presidency shaped a new politics of gender

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Other Authors: Ferguson, Michaele L., 1973-, Marso, Lori Jo.
Language:English
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Physical Description:viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2007.
ISBN:9780822340645 (cloth : alk. paper)
082234064X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822340423 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822340429 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Table of 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.