Sexual Decoys Gender, Race and War in

In 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.

Zillah Eisenstein is Professor of Politics at Ithaca College in New York.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Gender as Politics in Another Form	p. 1
On gendering sex	p. 3
Gendering gender	p. 7
War as coded politics	p. 10
Resexing the Wars of/on Terror	p. 17
Re-militarizing daily life	p. 18
Militarizing gender	p. 23
Rape as gendered war	p. 27
Patriarchy, suicide bombers and war	p. 30
Women's rights and the military police	p. 32
Sexual humiliation, gender confusion and Abu Ghraib	p. 33
Terrorized and Privatized Democracy	p. 49
Terrorism, torture and the new extremism	p. 51
Documenting democracy's demise	p. 53
Working-class warriors and privatized democracy	p. 58
Corporate terror and war	p. 60
Diversifying and Racializing Decoys	p. 68
On racism and power	p. 70
Racism and militarization	p. 71
Affirming action and diversifying for war	p. 72
Surveilling diversity in the academy	p. 75
Katrina and her gendering of race and class	p. 79
Women marching against war in the two gulfs	p. 87
Ungendering Feminisms and the Pluralisms of Sex	p. 93
Neoliberal/imperial feminism	p. 97
States and gendered decoys	p. 99
Diversifying while militarizing gender	p. 104
Imperial patriarchal gender	p. 106
Gay marriage and gender fluidity	p. 109
Bush's cowgirls	p. 111
Gendering gender in testosterone elections	p. 117
Dislocating imperial feminism	p. 124
A polysexual ungendering of democratic feminisms	p. 127
Index	p. 135
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