This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies
emerging after September 11 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage
control and contain specific bodies with respect to race ethnicity gender sexuality and
citizenship status. Inflections presented via 9 11 come into play against a backdrop shaped by
established patterns of behavior and attitudes toward women and particular groups of people
within an American landscape. As a result existing notions of threat combine with 9 11
inflections to shape a specific conception of threat in a context after 9 11 and within this
context a feminism after 9 11 emerges. This contextualized feminism would have to develop its
analysis within the frame of a society fundamentally altered by the events of 9 11 including
its ideological aftermath by foregrounding pertinent social categories as they interplay with
women's bodies.
