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Feminist Surveillance Studies

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Rachel E. Dubrofsky is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Shoshana Amielle Magnet is Associate Professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race and the Technology of Identity, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Feminist Surveillance Studies is a field-defining collection that places gender, race, class, and sexuality at the center of surveillance studies. Concerned with exposing the ways in which surveillance is tied to discrimination, the contributors investigate what constitutes surveillance, who is scrutinized, why, and at what cost. Zusammenfassung Feminist Surveillance Studies is a field-defining collection that places gender! race! class! and sexuality at the center of surveillance studies. Concerned with exposing the ways in which surveillance is tied to discrimination! the contributors investigate what constitutes surveillance! who is scrutinized! why! and at what cost. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword / Mark Andrejevic ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction. Feminist Surveillance Studies: Critical Interventions / Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Soshana Amielle Magnet 1 Part I. Surveillance as Foundational Structure 1. Not-Seeing: State Surveillance, Settler Colonialism, and Gender Violence / Andrea Smith 21 2. Surveillance and the Work of Antitrafficking: From Compulsory Examination to International Coordination / Laura Hyun Yi Kang 39 3. Legally Sexed: Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens / Lisa Jean Moore and Paisley Currah 58 Part II. The Visual and Surveillance: Bodies on Display 4. Violating In/Visibilities: Honor Killings and Interlocking Surveillance(s) / Yasmin Jiwani 79 5. Gender, Race, and Authenticity: Celebrity Women Tweeting for the Gaze / Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Megan M. Wood 93 6. Held in the Light: Reading Images of Rihanna's Domestic Abuse / Kelli D. Moore 107 Part III. Biometric Technologies as Surveillance Assemblages 7. Terror and the Female Grotesque: Introducing Full-Body Scanners to U.S. Airports / Rachel Hall 127 8. The Public Fetus and the Veiled Woman: Transnational Surrogacy Blogs as Surveillant Assemblage / Sayantani Dasgupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta 150 9. Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia? / Dorothy E. Roberts 169 Part IV. Toward a Feminist Praxis in Surveillance Studies 10. Antiprostitution Feminism and the Surveillance of Sex Industry Clients / Ummni Khan 189 11. Research Methods, Institutional Ethnography, and Feminist Surveillance Studies / Kevin Walby and Seantel Anaïs 208 Afterword. Blaming, Shaming, and the Feminization of Social Media / Lisa Nakamura 221 References 229 Contributors 265 Index 271...

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Authors Rachel E. (EDT)/ Magnet Dubrofsky, Rachel E. Magnet Dubrofsky
Assisted by Rachel E Dubrofsky (Editor), Rachel E. Dubrofsky (Editor), Shoshana Amielle Magnet (Editor)
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 12.06.2015
 
EAN 9780822359203
ISBN 978-0-8223-5920-3
No. of pages 304
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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