ISBN:
9780822340423
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (301 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version W Stands for Women : How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
DDC:
305.420973/090511
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Feminism, Gender, and Security in the Bush Presidency; Part I. Compassionate Patriarchy; The Allure of Authoritarianism: Bush Administration Ideology and the Reconsolidation of Patriarchy; The Politics of Compassion in the Age of aids; Part II. Bush's Masculinities; Straight Eye for the Straight Guy; W's Masculine Pseudo-Democracy: Brothers-in-Arms, Suicide Bombers, and the Culture of Life; Part III. Gendered War Logics at Home and Abroad; The Logic of Masculinist Protection:Reflections on the Current Security State; Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib?
Description / Table of Contents:
Feminists versus Feminization: Confronting the War Logics of the George W. Bush AdministrationPart IV. Feminist Responses; Feminism and Security Rhetoric in the Post-September 11 Bush Administration; Feminism and the Complications of Freeing the Women of Afghanistan and Iraq; References; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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