Embodied Power explores dimensions of politics seldom addressed in
political science, illuminating state practices that produce
hierarchically-organized groups through racialized
gendering-despite guarantees of formal equality. Challenging
disembodied accounts of citizenship, the book traces how modern
science and law produce race, gender, and sexuality as purportedly
natural characteristics, masking their political genesis. Taking
the United States as a case study, Hawkesworth demonstrates how
diverse laws and policies concerning civil and political rights,
education, housing, and welfare, immigration and securitization,
policing and criminal justice create finely honed hierarchies of
difference that structure the life prospects of men and women of
particular races and ethnicities within and across borders. In
addition to documenting the continuing operation of embodied power
across diverse policy terrains, the book investigates complex ways
of seeing that render raced-gendered relations of domination and
subordination invisible. From common assumptions about
individualism and colorblind perception to disciplinary norms such
as methodological individualism, methodological nationalism, and
abstract universalism, problematic presuppositions sustain mistaken
notions concerning formal equality and legal neutrality that allow
state practices of racialized gendering to escape detection with
profound consequences for the life prospects of privileged and
marginalized groups. Through sustained critique of these flawed
suppositions, Embodied Power challenges central beliefs about the
nature of power, the scope of state action, and the practice of
liberal democracy and identifies alternative theoretical frameworks
that make racialized-gendering visible and actionable. Key
Features: Demonstrates how understandings of politics change when
the experiences of men and women of diverse classes, races, and
ethnicities are placed at the center of analysis. Explains why
race-neutral and gender-neutral policies fail to eliminate
entrenched inequalities. Shows how accredited methods in political
science (and the social sciences more generally) mask state
practices that create and sustain racial and gender inequality.
Traces how mistaken notions of biological determinism have diverted
attention from political processes of racialization, gendering, and
sexualization. Argues that the intersecting categories of race,
class, gender, and sexuality are essential to all subfields of
political science if contemporary power is to be studied
systematically.
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