W Stands for Women : How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminism, Gender, and Security in the Bush Presidency -- Part I. Compassionate Patriarchy -- The Allure of Authoritarianism: Bush Administration Ideology and the Reconsolidation of Patriarchy -- The Politics of Compassion in the Age of aids...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminism, Gender, and Security in the Bush Presidency -- Part I. Compassionate Patriarchy -- The Allure of Authoritarianism: Bush Administration Ideology and the Reconsolidation of Patriarchy -- The Politics of Compassion in the Age of aids -- Part II. Bush's Masculinities -- Straight Eye for the Straight Guy -- W's Masculine Pseudo-Democracy: Brothers-in-Arms, Suicide Bombers, and the Culture of Life -- Part III. Gendered War Logics at Home and Abroad -- The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State -- Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib? -- Feminists versus Feminization: Confronting the War Logics of the George W. Bush Administration -- Part IV. Feminist Responses -- Feminism and Security Rhetoric in the Post-September 11 Bush Administration -- Feminism and the Complications of Freeing the Women of Afghanistan and Iraq -- References -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung