Feminism After 9/11: Women's Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat

1: Women's Bodies and Feminism "After" 9/11.- 2: The Gendered and Racialized Threat of First Lady Michelle Obama.- 3: Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor.- 4: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Threat of "Anchor/Terror Babies".- 5: Sexual(ized) Terrorist Threats in an Age of Marriage Equality.- 6: (Trans)Gender Threats in a 9/11 Era.- 7: The "War on Women" and the 9/11 Project.- Conclusion.

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

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.