Safe: Volume 39, Nos 1&2 Spring/Summer 2011 (Women's Studies Quarterly, 39) - Softcover

9781558617056: Safe: Volume 39, Nos 1&2 Spring/Summer 2011 (Women's Studies Quarterly, 39)

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ISBN 10: 1558617051 ISBN 13: 9781558617056

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2011

Our lives are filled with devices, organizations, and agreements to keep our bodies, loved ones, and belongings "safe." These practices assuage our fears, but what does it mean to be or feel safe? Is safety synonymous with security, stability, or stasis? Is it a condition or the negation of threat, risk, and danger? Can we ever be truly safe?

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About the Author:

Alyson M. Cole currently teaches at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests bridge political theory and American politics/culture. Cole is the author of "The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror "(Stanford University Press, 2007). Her articles have appeared in American Studies, Feminist Studies, the Michigan Law Review, and the National Women's Studies Association Journal.
Kyoo Lee is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals.

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