Field Guide for Female Interrogators

Description:

Combining an art project with critical commentary, Fusco addresses the role of women in the war on terror and explores how female sexuality is being used as a weapon against suspected Islamic terrorists. Using details drawn from actual accounts of detainee treatment in US military prisons, Fusco conceives a field guide of instructional drawings that prompts urgent questions regarding the moral dilemma of torture in general and the use of female sexuality specifically. Fusco assesses what these matters suggest about how the military and the state use sex, sexuality, and originally feminist notions of sexual freedom. From publisher description.

subjects: Abu Ghraib Prison,  American Prisoners and prisons,  Iraq War, 2003-,  Military interrogation,  Prisoners and prisons, American,  Sexual behavior,  Women,  Women and war,  Women soldiers,  Iraq War, 2003-2011,  Women in war,  Terrorism, prevention

Places: United States