Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy

Type

Book

Authors

Eisenstein, Zillah

ISBN 10

1842778161

Tags

Feminism, War, gender, race, politics

Abstract

n this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her unforgiving indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of the Afghan and Iraq wars, violations at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the 2004 US Presidential election, and Hurricane Katrina. She warns that women's rights rhetoric is being manipulated, particularly by Condoleezza Rice and other women in the Bush administration, as a ploy for global dominance and a misogynistic capture of democratic discourse. However, Eisenstein also believes that the 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 across the globe.

Description

Preface
1. Gender as politics in another form
2. Re-Sexing the wars of/on terror
3. Terrorized and privatized democracy
4. Diversifying and racializing decoys
5. Ungendering feminisms and the pluralisms of sex

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