Ferguson / Marso W Stands for Women

How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9065-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferguson, Michaele L.

Marso, Lori Jo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Snyder, R. Claire

Zivi, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Feminism, Gender, and Security in the Bush Presidency / Michaele L. Ferguson and Lori J. Marso 1

Part I. Compassionate Patriarchy

The Allure of Authoritarianism: Bush Administration Ideology and the Reconsolidation of Patriarchy / R. Claire Snyder 17

The Politics of Compassion in the Age of AIDS / Karen Zivi 41

Part II. Bush's Masculinities

Straight Eye for the Straight Guy / David S. Gutterman and Danielle Regan 63

W's Masculine Pseudo-Democracy: Brothers-in-Arms, Suicide Bombers, and the Culture of Life / Andrew Feffer 87

Part III. Gendered War Logics at Home and Abroad

The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State / Iris Marion Young 115

Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib? / Timothy Kaurman-Osborn 141

Feminists versus Feminization: Confronting the War Logics of the George W. Bush Administration / Mary Hawkesworth 163

Part IV. Feminist Responses

Feminism and Security Rhetoric in the Post September-11 Bush Administration / Michaele L. Ferguson 191

Feminism and the Complications of Freeing the Women of Afghanistan and Iraq / Lori J. Marso 221

References 245

Contributors 269

Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

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.