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Article: Feminism in the field.(A Field Guide for Female Interrogators)(Book review)
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A FIELD GUIDE FOR FEMALE INTERROGATORS
BY COCO FUSCO
NEW YORK: SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 2008
144PP./S16.95 (SB)
Coco Fusco's most recent book, A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008), provides a complex and nuanced reading of the Abu Ghraib scandal through a gendered lens. This feminist reading uses the recent release of Abu Ghraib images to explain the military's construction of institutionalized torture practices. Fusco reveals the way these practices use social constructions of femininity to inform interrogation practices and to control civilian response to their exposure. Through her essay, performance scripts, and field guide, ...