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Feminism after 9/11

Part of the Breaking Feminist Waves Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54582-4

ISBN: 978-1-137-54869-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 1, 2017

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Women’s Bodies and Feminism “After” 9/11

Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.; Lugo-Lugo, Carmen Rosally

Pages: 1 –23

[In this chapter Lugo-Lugo and Bloodsworth-Lugo maintain that feminism “after” 9/11 should not proceed via the same language and frameworks utilized in a pre-9/11 setting, given the relentless project of the United States to secure itself against (terroristic) threats and the emergence of...
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The Gendered and Racialized Threat of First Lady Michelle Obama

Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.; Lugo-Lugo, Carmen Rosally

Pages: 25 –45

[In this chapter Lugo-Lugo and Bloodsworth-Lugo analyze racialized constructions of First Lady Michelle Obama as part of their feminist inquiry. They examine ways in which popular discourse in the United States has constructed a threatening public image of Michelle Obama in which her race,...
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Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.; Lugo-Lugo, Carmen Rosally

Pages: 47 –68

[In this chapter Lugo-Lugo and Bloodsworth-Lugo use the figure of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to illustrate a clear connection between perceptions of Latinas, and (perceived) immigrant women of color as threats to the country. When Sotomayor was undergoing days of scrutiny by the U.S....
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Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Threat of “Anchor/Terror Babies”

Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.; Lugo-Lugo, Carmen Rosally

Pages: 69 –89

[Lugo-Lugo and Bloodsworth-Lugo analyze the discourse around immigration and its allusions to invasion and (in)security informed by the 9/11 construction of “terrorist attacks”—a discourse initiated by President George W. Bush in the wake of the September 11, 2001 events. Discussions surrounding...
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Sexual(ized) Terrorist Threats in an Age of Marriage Equality

Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.; Lugo-Lugo, Carmen Rosally

Pages: 91 –112

[Lugo-Lugo and Bloodsworth-Lugo consider the fact that the 9/11 era has witnessed two parallel happenings in relation to state and federal recognition of same-sex marriage. As a number of states passed amendments to their constitutions prohibiting the legal recognition of same-sex couples,...
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(Trans)Gender Threats in a 9/11 Era

Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.; Lugo-Lugo, Carmen Rosally

Pages: 113 –135

[In this chapter Lugo-Lugo and Bloodsworth-Lugo examine contemporary articulations of sexuality and gender as entities that require vigilance. For this, they use the figure of Amanda Simpson, President Obama’s appointee to the position of senior technical advisor within the Commerce Department’s...
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The “War on Women” and the 9/11 Project

Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.; Lugo-Lugo, Carmen Rosally

Pages: 137 –154

[In this chapter Lugo-Lugo and Bloodsworth-Lugo conclude by highlighting the context informed by 9/11 as one that requires attention within feminist analyses and contemporary analyses of women and women’s bodies. They use the rhetoric about and conceptualizations of the “War on Women” to propose...

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