One of the guys
Subtitle: women as aggressors and torturers
By: edited by Tara McKelvey
Contributors: McKelvey, Tara
Publisher: Seal Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Emeryville, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781580051965
Subjects: Violence in women; Women soldiers; Women and war; Torture; Iraq War, 2003- -- Participation, Female; Iraq War, 2003- -- Prisoners and prisons, American; War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Participation, Female; Military interrogation -- United States; Prisoners of war -- Abuse of; United States -- Armed Forces -- Women
Description: The debate about women and torture has, until recently, focused on women as victims of violence. But when photographs were released from the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, one featured a woman holding a prisoner by a dog leash. Overnight, she became a symbol of women's capacity to inflict pain and suffering--and soon, many in America were questioning why the infliction of violence has always been seen as inherently male. This collection deals specifically with this issue. In her foreword, Barbara Ehrenreich wonders why she once assumed women possessed an innate aversion to violence. Her essay serves as a launching point for the rest of the contributors, which include academics, journalists, and activists, each grappling with women's involvement in torture and the abuse of power. These essays challenge and examine the expectations placed on women while attempting to understand female perpetrators of abuse and torture in a broader context.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Feminism's assumptions upended / Barbara Ehrenreich; title: Introduction / Tara McKelvey; title: I still don't get how you could put a leash on a human being / Eve Ensler; title: Sexual coercion, prisons, and female responses / Angela Y. Davis; title: Why did Jennifer Scala bring cunt into the courtroom? / Ada Calhoun; title: Split screens / Karen J. Greenberg; title: The women of Abu Ghraib / Francine D'Amico; title: The misogynist implications of Abu Ghraib / Lucinda Marshall; title: Shock and awe : Abu Ghraib, women soldiers, and racially gendered torture / Ilene Feinman; title: Gender and sexual violence in the military / Jumana Musa; title: Women soldiers and interrogational abuses in the war on terror / Steven H. Miles; title: Women and the profession of arms / Erin Solaro; title: Guarding women : Abu Ghraib and military sexual culture / Elizabeth L. Hillman; title: Bitter fruit : constitutional gender equality comes to the military / Aziz Huq; title: Photography/pornography/torture : the politics of seeing Abu Ghraib / Laura Frost; title: Gender trouble at Abu Ghraib? / Timothy Kaufman-Osborn; title: Is that the pose of a liberated woman? / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; title: Feminism as imperialism / Katharine Viner; title: The "sex interrogators" of Guantánamo / Kristine A. Huskey; title: Women in the interrogation room / Riva Khoshaba; title: Women's role in mob violence : lynchings and Abu Ghraib / LaNitra Walker; title: Pawn, scapegoat, or collaborator? : U.S. military women and detainee abuse in Iraq / Barbara Finlay; title: Lynndie England in love / Janis Karpinski (as told to Tara McKelvey); title: The military made me do it : double standards and psychic injuries at Abu Ghraib / Lila Rajiva; title: Afterword / Cynthia Enloe