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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: W stands for women. Durham : Duke University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)654631373 |
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| Named Person: | George W Bush; George W Bush; George Walker Bush |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michaele L Ferguson; Lori Jo Marso |
| ISBN: | 9780822340645 082234064X 9780822340423 0822340429 |
| OCLC Number: | 82367782 |
| Description: | viii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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 the 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Michaele L. Ferguson and Lori Jo Marso. |
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"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 "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 Read more...
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