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
- Contents
- Foreword / Mark Andrejevic
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Feminist Surveillance Studies: Critical Interventions / Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet
- Part I: Surveillance as Foundational Structure
- 1. Not-Seeing: State Surveillance, Settler Colonialism, and Gender Violence / Andrea Smith
- 2. Surveillance and the Work of Antitrafficking: From Compulsory Examination to International Coordination / Laura Hyun Yi Kang
- 3. Legally Sexed: Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens / Lisa Jean Moore and Paisley Currah
- Part II: The Visual and Surveillance: Bodies on Display
- 4. Violating In/Visibilities: Honor Killings and Interlocking Surveillance(s) / Yasmin Jiwani
- 5. Gender, Race, and Authenticity: Celebrity Women Tweeting for the Gaze / Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Megan M. Wood
- 6. Held in the Light: Reading Images of Rihanna’s Domestic Abuse / Kelli D. Moore
- Part III: Biometric Technologies as Surveilance Assemblages
- 7. Terror and the Female Grotesque: Introducing Full-Body Scanners to U.S. Airports / Rachel Hall
- 8. The Public Fetus and the Veiled Woman: Transnational Surrogacy Blogs as Surveillant Assemblage / Sayantani DasGupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta
- 9. Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia? / Dorothy E. Roberts
- Part IV: Toward a Feminist Praxis in Surveillances Studies
- 10. Antiprostitution Feminism and the Surveillance of Sex Industry Clients / Ummni Khan
- 11. Research Methods, Institutional Ethnography, and Feminist Surveillance Studies / Kevin Walby and Seantel Anaïs
- Afterword: Blaming, Shaming, and the Feminization of Social Media / Lisa Nakamura
- References
- Contributors
- Index
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