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 Anais, 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
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