Faking it
Subtitle: U.S. hegemony in a "post-phallic" era
By: Cynthia Weber.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: International relations -- Psychological aspects.; Masculinity -- Political aspects.; Feminism.; Feminist theory.; Caribbean Area -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Caribbean Area.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
First sentence: This is the United States as I see it today - a white headless body of indecipherable sex and gender cloaked in the flag and daggered with a queer dildo harnessed to its midsection.
Description: Weber provides an invigorating analysis of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America through the lens of queer theory, one that is certain to spark controversy and debate. She probes popular ideas of how the United States is personified, arguing that a degree of queerness is both absent and present in these perceptions. Weber critically engages the popular image of American culture. Reviewing U.S. military interventions in Latin America from 1959 to 1994, Weber posits that American foreign policy is a set of strategic displacements of castration anxiety. She brilliantly illuminates the cultural anxieties and imperatives that shape foreign policy. Utilizing humor and critical logic, she provides a fascinating perspective on American foreign relations in the Caribbean.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.
Table of contents: title: Picture This; title: Cas/ztro's Cuba and the Contagion of Castration; title: America's Primary Colors in the Dominican Republic; title: Lights, Camera, ... Reagan; or, Finding the Rest of America in Grenada; title: Something's Still Missing: Male Hysteria and the U.S. Invasion in Panama; title: Masquerading America and the U.S. "Intervasion" of Haiti; title: America's Queer Accessory