Overview
- Examines how the events of 9/11 impacted feminism and affected representations of women
- Looks at how prominent female figures, such as Michelle Obama, are represented in a 9/11 era
- Investigates the perceived 'other' in 9/11 America, dealing with topics such as immigration, gender, and race
Part of the book series: Breaking Feminist Waves (BFW)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage, control, and contain specific bodies with respect to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship status. Inflections presented via “9/11” come into play against a backdrop shaped by established patterns of behavior and attitudes toward women and particular groups of people within an American landscape. As a result, existing notions of threat combine with 9/11 inflections to shape a specific conception of threat in a context “after” 9/11, and within this context, a feminism “after” 9/11 emerges. This contextualized feminism would have to develop its analysis within the frame of a society fundamentally altered by the events of 9/11, including its ideological aftermath, by foregrounding pertinent social categories as they interplay with women’s bodies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo is Associate Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, USA. Her books with Bloodsworth-Lugo include: A New Kind of Containment: “The War on Terror,” Race, and Sexuality, editors (2009); Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children, also with C. Richard King (2010); Containing (Un)American Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship (2010); and Projecting 9/11: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films (2014).
Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo is Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, USA. She has published in the areas of race, gender, and sexuality; 9/11 discourse and cultural production; film and U.S. popular culture; and contemporary continental social and political philosophy. She is the author of In-Between Bodies: Sexual Difference, Race, and Sexuality (2007), co-editor of A New Kind of Containment: “The War on Terror,” Race, and Sexuality, with Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (2009), co-author of Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children, with C. Richard King and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (2010), co-author of Containing (Un)American Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship, with Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (2010), and co-editor of Race, Philosophy, and Film, with Dan Flory (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Feminism after 9/11
Book Subtitle: Women’s Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat
Authors: Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo
Series Title: Breaking Feminist Waves
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54582-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54869-6Published: 01 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54582-4Published: 30 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 161
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, Cultural Studies