UID:
almafu_9959690056102883
Format:
1 online resource (304 p.) :
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8 illustrations
ISBN:
9780822375463
Content:
Questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have largely been left unexamined in surveillance studies. The contributors to this field-defining collection take up these questions, and in so doing provide new directions for analyzing surveillance. They use feminist theory to expose the ways in which surveillance practices and technologies are tied to systemic forms of discrimination that serve to normalize whiteness, able-bodiedness, capitalism, and heterosexuality. The essays discuss the implications of, among others, patriarchal surveillance in colonial North America, surveillance aimed at curbing the trafficking of women and sex work, women presented as having agency in the creation of the images that display their bodies via social media, full-body airport scanners, and mainstream news media discussion of honor killings in Canada and the concomitant surveillance of Muslim bodies. Rather than rehashing arguments as to whether or not surveillance keeps the state safe, the contributors investigate what constitutes surveillance, who is scrutinized, why, and at what cost. The work fills a gap in feminist scholarship and shows that gender, race, class, and sexuality should be central to any study of surveillance.Contributors. Seantel Anaïs, Mark Andrejevic, Paisley Currah, Sayantani DasGupta, Shamita Das Dasgupta, Rachel E. Dubrofsky, Rachel Hall, Lisa Jean Moore, Yasmin Jiwani, Ummni Khan, Shoshana Amielle Magnet, Kelli Moore, Lisa Nakamura, Dorothy Roberts, Andrea Smith, Kevin Walby, Megan M. Wood, Laura Hyun Yi Kang
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Foreword --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction Feminist Surveillance Studies --
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PART I. SURVEILLANCE AS FOUNDATIONAL STRUCTURE --
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1. Not-Seeing --
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2. Surveillance and the Work of Antitrafficking --
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3. Legally Sexed --
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PART II. THE VISUAL AND SURVEILLANCE --
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4. Violating In/Visibilities --
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5. Gender, Race, and Authenticity --
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6. Held in the Light --
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PART III. BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGIES AS SURVEILLANCE ASSEMBLAGES --
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7. Terror and the Female Grotesque --
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8. The Public Fetus and the Veiled Woman --
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9. Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies --
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PART IV. TOWARD A FEMINIST PRAXIS IN SURVEILLANCE STUDIES --
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10. Antiprostitution Feminism and the Surveillance of Sex Industry Clients --
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11. Research Methods, Institutional Ethnography, and Feminist Surveillance Studies --
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Afterword Blaming, Shaming, and the Feminization of Social Media --
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References --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822375463
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375463
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375463
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375463
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375463
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