Vortex : The Crisis of Patriarchy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hawthorne, Susan, 1956-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Spinifex Press, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • About the Author
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface: The Year of the Pandemic
  • Introduction
  • A note on truth
  • A note on words
  • Key terms in this book
  • Chapter One: The Crisis of Economics: Patriarchal Wars against People and the Planet
  • Appropriation of politics
  • How has criticism of globalisation shifted sides?
  • The speeding vortex: every failure is a new business opportunity
  • Understanding neoliberalism
  • Resistance
  • Markets, work and the Universal Basic Income
  • Chapter Two: Less Than Perfect: Medical Wars against People with Disabilities
  • Feminism
  • Ruling classes
  • Infantilisation
  • Colonisation
  • Harm minimisation
  • Normalisation
  • Erasure
  • The technology of bodies
  • Money
  • The personal is political
  • Chapter Three: Feminist Cassandras: Men's Patriotic Wars against Women's Intimate Lives
  • War and the institution of heterosexuality intersect
  • War and masculinity, torture and heterosexuality
  • Intimacy and war
  • To counter war is to counter the militarism embedded in daily life
  • Postmodern war
  • Money
  • What would it take for a woman to be free of injury and to live without fear for her safety?
  • Chapter Four: Biocolonialism and Bioprospecting: Wars against Indigenous Peoples and Women
  • What is bioprospecting?
  • What is biopiracy?
  • Biopiracy of earth-based resources
  • Biopiracy and value
  • Biopiracy of body-based resources
  • Separation
  • Microcolonialism of Indigenous bodies
  • Gynocolonialism
  • Bodies with disabilities
  • Heterocolonialism
  • Intergenerational sustainability and cultural integrity
  • Money
  • What practices and laws can be implemented to prevent knowledge theft and biocolonialism?
  • Chapter Five: Deterritoriality and Breaking the Spirit: Land, Refugees and Trauma
  • Being homeless in the body
  • Dispossession
  • Land as relationship
  • Land as relationship in prehistory
  • Trauma
  • Refusing refugees
  • Money
  • What systems could be put in place to end planetary theft?
  • Chapter Six: Colonisation, Erasure and Torture: Wars against Lesbians
  • Globalisation
  • The politics of shame
  • The phallus and the penis
  • Origins of patriarchy and violence against lesbians
  • Nationalism and exile
  • Global recolonisation
  • Lesbian refugees
  • Money
  • Guidelines for officials interviewing lesbian refugees
  • Chapter Seven: Breaking the Spirit of the Women's Liberation Movement: The War against Biology
  • Trans vs cis
  • Trans vs intersex
  • Trans vs lesbian
  • Trans vs women
  • Women's Circus
  • Oppression
  • Postmodernism and queer theory
  • Silence
  • Trauma
  • Hatred and shame
  • Breaking the spirit
  • Theft of a future and a past
  • Commodification
  • Strategies used by the trans lobby
  • Violence against trans people
  • Institutionalising trans laws