W’s Masculine Pseudo-Democracy: Brothers-in-Arms, Suicide Bombers, and the Culture of Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Feminism, Gender, and Security in the Bush Presidency 1
5. Part I. Compassionate Patriarchy
6. The Allure of Authoritarianism: Bush Administration Ideology and the Reconsolidation of Patriarchy 17
7. The Politics of Compassion in the Age of aids 41
8. Part II. Bush’s Masculinities
9. Straight Eye for the Straight Guy 63
10. W’s Masculine Pseudo-Democracy: Brothers-in-Arms, Suicide Bombers, and the Culture of Life 87
11. Part III. Gendered War Logics at Home and Abroad
12. The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State 115
13. Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib? 141
14. Feminists versus Feminization: Confronting the War Logics of the George W. Bush Administration 163
15. Part IV. Feminist Responses
16. Feminism and Security Rhetoric in the Post–September 11 Bush Administration 191
17. Feminism and the Complications of Freeing the Women of Afghanistan and Iraq 221
18. References 245
19. Contributors 269
20. Index 271