Feminist Surveillance Studies

Published by Duke University Press 2015

Feminist Surveillance Studies

Edited by: Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375463

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About this book

Feminist Surveillance Studies is a field-defining collection that places gender, race, class, and sexuality at the center of surveillance studies. Concerned with exposing the ways in which surveillance is tied to discrimination, the contributors investigate what constitutes surveillance, who is scrutinized, why, and at what cost.

Author / Editor information

Rachel E. Dubrofsky is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.

Shoshana Amielle Magnet is Associate Professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race and the Technology of Identity, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"Feminist Surveillance Studies provides a much-needed set of feminist interventions into the study of surveillance. The essays offer critically important insights into the gendered dimensions of state surveillance, vividly outline the structural inequalities designed into surveillance regimes, and provide a wealth of avenues for future research."

-- Kelly A. Gates author of Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance

"Remarkably intercommunicative and interdisciplinary, these essays are an important intervention in the burgeoning field of surveillance studies... Feminist Surveillance Studies is an overture that conceptualizes surveillance within an aesthetics of domination, a luxurious and galvanizing text to be deeply engaged and widely taught."

-- Stephanie Amon Afterimage

"Feminist Surveillance Studies offers an important intervention in surveillance studies scholarship, one that is sure to shape the discipline moving forward. It is a must-read for teachers and scholars in this area, but the diverse array of case studies makes this book relevant for updating material in an array of media studies classrooms."

-- Dana Schowalter Feminist Media Studies

"[A] necessary and important collection. . . . Rather than mark off a corner of scholarship as definitively feminist and definitively surveillance, Feminist Surveillance Studies asks us to rethink both, in service of more nuanced, just, and progressive critical frameworks."

-- Andrea Braithwaite New Media & Society

"Feminist Surveillance Studies offers an important intervention in surveillance studies scholarship, one that is sure to shape the discipline moving forward. It is a must-read for teachers and scholars in this area, but the diverse array of case studies makes this book relevant for updating material in an array of media studies classrooms."

-- Dana Schowalter Feminist Media Studies

"It is testament to the structural intra-disciplinarity of Feminist Surveillance Studies that the subject categories this book is labelled with—Gender Studies, Surveillance Studies, Cultural Studies—don’t cover the half of it. These framing points are enriched by the various socio-historical contingencies presented throughout. The multiple critical connections are precisely what is so vital about the book, and a reason I would include chapters from this book on reading lists for a general new media studies course, or contemporary literary studies and visual culture courses."

-- Zara Dinnen New Formations

"On their own, and as a collection, the essays in Feminist Surveillance Studies offer an impressive array of empirically rich, theoretically engaged and critically-oriented contributions that should reshape the ways we do surveillance studies. Dubrofsky and Magnet are right to claim that their book will launch a new field of engagement. Feminist Surveillance Studies is a must-read for feminist and surveillance scholars alike."

-- Amanda Glasbeek Theoretical Criminology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Mark Andrejevic Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Introduction Feminist Surveillance Studies Critical Interventions Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. SURVEILLANCE AS FOUNDATIONAL STRUCTURE
1. Not-Seeing State Surveillance, Settler Colonialism, and Gender Violence Andrea Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Surveillance and the Work of Antitrafficking From Compulsory Examination to International Coordination Laura Hyun Yi Kang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. Legally Sexed Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens Lisa Jean Moore and Paisley Currah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
PART II. THE VISUAL AND SURVEILLANCE
4. Violating In/Visibilities Honor Killings and Interlocking Surveillance(s) Yasmin Jiwani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. Gender, Race, and Authenticity Celebrity Women Tweeting for the Gaze Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Megan M. Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6. Held in the Light Reading Images of Rihanna’s Domestic Abuse Kelli D. Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
PART III. BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGIES AS SURVEILLANCE ASSEMBLAGES
7. Terror and the Female Grotesque Introducing Full-Body Scanners to U.S. Airports Rachel Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
8. The Public Fetus and the Veiled Woman Transnational Surrogacy Blogs as Surveillant Assemblage Sayantani DasGupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
9. Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies A New Reproductive Dystopia? Dorothy E. Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
PART IV. TOWARD A FEMINIST PRAXIS IN SURVEILLANCE STUDIES
10. Antiprostitution Feminism and the Surveillance of Sex Industry Clients Ummni Khan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
11. Research Methods, Institutional Ethnography, and Feminist Surveillance Studies Kevin Walby and Seantel Anaïs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Afterword Blaming, Shaming, and the Feminization of Social Media Lisa Nakamura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 8 illustrations

eBook

Published: May 15, 2015
ISBN: 9780822375463