W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender

Published by Duke University Press 2007

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
With contributions by: R. Claire Snyder and Karen Zivi

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390657

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About this book

Essays that examine the Bush adminstration's deployment of feminist rhetoric and the effects of the administration's policies on women, feminism, and gender roles in the U.S.

Author / Editor information

Michaele L. Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Lori Jo Marso is Professor of Political Science and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Union College. She is the author of Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women.

Reviews

“Full of strikingly original and meticulously theorized readings of contemporary public life, W Stands for Women is one of the most intellectually and politically exciting books that I’ve read in years.”—Catherine A. Holland, author of The Body Politic: Foundings, Citizenship, and Difference in the American Political Imagination

“Making lasting feminist sense of the George W. Bush presidency—long after it’s over—will be a crucial intellectual task. W Stands for Women is going to be essential reading as we all tackle this challenge.”—Cynthia Enloe, author of Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link

“W Stands for Women offers a compelling, well-integrated account of ‘the post-September 11 security state’ in the United States.”

-- Sylvia Bashevkin Feminist Theory

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Feminism, Gender, and Security in the Bush Presidency Michaele Ferguson and Lori Marso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Compassionate Patriarchy
The Allure of Authoritarianism: Bush Administration Ideology and the Reconsolidation of Patriarchy Claire Snyder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
The Politics of Compassion in the Age of aids Karen Zivi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Part II. Bush’s Masculinities
Straight Eye for the Straight Guy David Gutterman and Danielle Regan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
W’s Masculine Pseudo-Democracy: Brothers-in-Arms, Suicide Bombers, and the Culture of Life Andrew Feffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Part III. Gendered War Logics at Home and Abroad
The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State Iris Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib? Timothy Osborn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Feminists versus Feminization: Confronting the War Logics of the George W. Bush Administration Mary Hawkesworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Part IV. Feminist Responses
Feminism and Security Rhetoric in the Post–September 11 Bush Administration Michaele Ferguson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Feminism and the Complications of Freeing the Women of Afghanistan and Iraq Lori Marso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 4 illustrations

eBook

Published: August 29, 2007
ISBN: 9780822390657