A Field Guide For Female Interrogators

Coco Fusco

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English

Seven Stories Press,U.S.
01 August 2011

Politics & government

The world was shocked by the images that emerged from Abu Ghraib, the US-controlled prison in Iraq. Lynndie England, the young female army officer shown smiling devilishly as she humiliated male prisoners, became first a scapegoat and then a victim who was ""just following orders."" Ignored were the more elemental questions of how women are functioning within conservative power structures of government and the military. Why do the military and the CIA use female sexuality as an interrogation tactic, and why is this tactic downplayed and even ignored in internal investigations of prisoner abuse? Combining an art project with critical commentary, Coco Fusco imaginatively 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.

By: Coco Fusco
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 161g
ISBN: 9781583227800
ISBN 10: 1583227806
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

COCO FUSCO is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is the author of English is Broken Here- Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas, and editor of Corpus Delecti- Performance Art of the Americas and Only Skin Deep- Changing Visions of the American Self (with Brian Wallis). A recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, she is an associate professor at Columbia University. Her work on military interrogation was selected for the 2008 Whitney Biennial.