Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these popular films are key media through which children (and adults) learn about the world and how to behave. While racial and gender stereotypes may not be as obvious as they may have been in films of decades past, they often continue to convey troubling messages and stereotypes in subtle and surprising ways.

Arts & Photography

King, C. Richard

Lugo-Lugo, Carmen R.

Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.

Graphic Design

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

In-between Bodies: Sexual Difference, Race and Sexuality (Suny Series in Gender Theory)

Connects theories of sexual difference to race and queer theories through a focus on “in-between” bodies.Residing between culture and nature, lived bodies are not fixed objects nor biological givens. In-Between Bodies examines “the body” in light of recent work in sexual difference theory and considers contributions provided by sexual difference frameworks, as well as their limits. Addressing how bodies reside outside of traditional categorization, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo reexamines issues of sex, gender, and race and maintains that while sexual difference theorists do account for positions that reside between traditional binaries, she points to lived bodies and experiences left unaccounted for. Drawing from theorists of transgendered and racialized identities, for example, this book helps recognize and address various gaps in sexual difference theory while it indicates practical contributions for pedagogy and politics.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

State Univ of New York Pr

Connects theories of sexual difference to race and queer theories through a focus on “in-between” bodies. Residing between culture and nature, lived bodies are not fixed objects nor biological givens. In-Between Bodies examines “the body” in light of recent work in sexual difference theory and considers contributions provided by sexual difference frameworks, as well as their limits. Addressing how bodies reside outside of traditional categorization, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo reexamines issues of sex, gender, and race and maintains that while sexual difference theorists do account for positions that reside between traditional binaries, she points to lived bodies and experiences left unaccounted for. Drawing from theorists of transgendered and racialized identities, for example, this book helps recognize and address various gaps in sexual difference theory while it indicates practical contributions for pedagogy and politics.

State University of New York Press

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.

Feminism after 9/11: Women’s Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat (Breaking Feminist Waves)

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Projecting 9/11 examines sensibilities and ideologies that arose after September 11, 2001, and how these intersect with issues of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in contemporary mainstream films. The authors argue that the social and political project that is “9/11” can be found in most cultural artifacts produced after the date, including film. In essence, Hollywood films project the 9/11 project. The book analyzes the specific ways in which recent Hollywood films have become both powerful forces of significance and also forceful representations of reality about post-9/11 life. From films that explicitly treat subjects related to 9/11, such as United 93 and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, to films that show post-9/11 themes in less-expected ways, such as Eat, Pray, Love and World War Z, the authors explore tensions around race, gender, and sexuality. The book examines our perceptions of reality after the events of September 11, 2001, as shown by one of the more influential means of cultural representation—Hollywood films.

Projecting 9/11: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

"The authors argue that queer, black, brown, and foreign bodies, and the so-called threats they represent, such as immigration reform and same-sex marriage, have been effectively linked with terrorism. These awful conflations... are enduring and help to explain the contradictions of contemporary U.S. politics. We are far from a post post-9/11 world."  Ronald R. Sundstrom, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of San Francisco, United States "If you want to understand how a new biopolitics of citizenship is containing bodies of the nation by re-inscribing sex and race into it and how this new biopolitics is being resisted you must read this book."  Engin F. Isin, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, United Kingdom

Containing Unamerican Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship (Value Inquiry, 219)

Brill Academic Pub

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Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

In-between Bodies: Sexual Difference, Race and Sexuality (Suny Series in Gender Theory)

In-between Bodies: Sexual Difference, Race and Sexuality (Suny Series in Gender Theory)

Feminism after 9/11: Women’s Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat (Breaking Feminist Waves)

Projecting 9/11: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

Containing Unamerican Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship (Value Inquiry, 219)