Feminist Surveillance Studies

<div>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.<br><br>Contributors. Seantel Anaïs 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</div>