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... Theodore Roosevelt Charles Parkhurst Lexow Committee police corruption policing women ...

... by an anxious public due to concerns over their ability to police white women in a respectful way. Informed by racial science, early eugenics, and anti-vice and corruption investigations of the era, NYPD commissioner Theodore Roosevelt articulated a scientific vision of a hierarchy of races based on how well...

... This chapter explores police violence against Black women and the transformative potential of Black women's spiritual activism against police violence. The author interrogates the prevalence of police violence targeting Black cis and trans women like Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, Layleen...

.... The chapter elaborates on the forms of violent intimacies constituted between trans people and police officers, who embody state power through legal and extralegal means of surveillance and securitization. By constantly negotiating the process of surveillance and securitization, trans women oblige the police...

... African American New Yorkers, observing the recruitment of immigrant police officers, demanded the appointment of Black police. They did this as a response to decades of disproportionate arrests of Black men and women in the city and police brutality, and argued that a respectable Black officer...

... with irrational fearmongering. As evident in the post-Fukushima neologism “radiation brain mom,” the implicit target of fūhyōhigai policing was women, understood as having an irrational “radiation brain,” being antiscience, and overreacting. With its strong shaming effects, such food policing made many women’s...

... and frequently makes women the messengers as well as the targets. The “correct” kind of understanding of radiation was cultivated from the ground up and in a seemingly democratic manner, implicating women as important partners in this policing process. food safety risk communication participatory model...

.... Everyday law enforcement mobilized intimate forms of surveillance and spectatorship, as multiple actors looked for and looked at cross-dressing criminals in police photographs, court sketches, and newspaper crime reports. Visibility was partial, however, as newspaper reports focused on white cross-dressing...

... This chapter examines the case of the safe school lunch movement (which was highly feminized) that demanded the government ensure the safety of the public school lunch program after the Fukushima accident. Food policing and the charge of fūhyōhigai made it difficult for women in the movement...

... This chapter explores cross-dressing law’s legal operations and effects as it developed as a flexible tool for policing multiple gender offenses, including those of feminist dress reformers, female impersonators, fast young women who dressed as men for nights out on the town, and people whose...

... The authors of this chapter—one of the first woman activists from the social movement of mothers of youth killed by state violence to be elected to office in Rio, and a scholar-filmmaker—focus on the switch from Black women grassroots organizers to elected municipal representatives. Black women...

... as a racializing state technique. The Pearl Revolution led to a rise in women-led confrontational street politics not necessarily authorized by Bahraini opposition men. This produced sublimated tensions not captured by images of orderly gender-segregated marches. sect-sex-police nexus racialization...

... and complicity of the state, police, and judiciary—and also show how such violence is normalized as it becomes part of gendering the population through a violent right-wing patriarchy. Such gendering produces Hindu patriarchy able to violently subjugate Muslim women and men, and constructs Muslim men...

... to contain excessive soldier sexuality and to regulate soldier contact with the multiracial population of Panamá. In their most intrusive dimensions, these programs involved the arrest and screening of Panamanian women as “venereal disease suspects” whose purported racial proclivities for dirt, bacteria...

... and complicity of the state, police, and judiciary—and also show how such violence is normalized as it becomes part of gendering the population through a violent right-wing patriarchy. Such gendering produces Hindu patriarchy able to violently subjugate Muslim women and men, and constructs Muslim men...

... the profiling, policing, and surveillance of Black and brown women. female genital cutting (FGC) immigrants media racialized bodies surveillance ...

... and misogyny are embedded in the multiple structures of violence and policing that target women and nonheteronormative and gender nonconforming people in Central America. Themes in art include feminicide and impunity, interpersonal violence, neoliberalism, rape of body and lands, anti-Indigenous and anti-Black...

.... Black women whose children were victims of police violence have a place in formal politics, their role going beyond fighting for justice for their sons. They reinscribe new values into favela communities and fight against the created categories of being Black or favelado. The concept of elactivism...

... Using the 2009 police images documenting the domestic abuse of pop star Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty, this chapter mobilizes Denise Da Silva and Sally Engle Merry’s respective formulations of the “analytics of raciality” and “regime of domestic violence governmentality” toward a feminist reading...