Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race and War in Imperial DemocracyIn this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of the Afghan and Iraq wars, violations at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the 2004 US Presidential election, and hurricane Katrina. She warns that women's rights rhetoric is being manipulated as a ploy for global dominance and a misogynistic capture of democratic discourse. However, Eisenstein also believes that the radically plural and diverse lives of women will lay the basis for an assault on these fascistic elements. This new politics will both confound and clarify feminisms, and reconfigure democracy for the globe. |
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| Title | Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy |
| Author | Zillah Eisenstein |
| Publisher | Zed Books, 2007 |
| ISBN | 184277817X, 9781842778173 |
| Length | 142 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Gender Studies |
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