37 records matched your query       

Title:

W stands for women : how the George W. Bush presidency shaped a new politics of gender / edited by Michaele L. Ferguson and Lori Jo Marso.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

viii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Government policy--United States.
Women's rights--United States.
Bush, George W.--(George Walker),--1946-
United States--Politics and government--2001-
War on Terrorism, 2001---Social aspects.

Other Authors:

Ferguson, Michaele L., 1973-
Marso, Lori Jo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 th 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.

ISBN:

0822340429 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822340423 (pbk. : alk. paper)
082234064X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822340645 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007004081

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)