A field guide for female interrogators.9781583227800 A field guide for female interrogators. Fusco, Coco. Seven Stories Press 2008 144 pages $16.95 Paperback HQ1426 The scenes of torture from the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib See Abu Ghraib prison and Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The city of Abu Ghraib (BGN/PCGN romanization: Abū Ghurayb; أبو غريب in Arabic) in the Anbar Governorate of Iraq is located 32 kilometres (20 mi) west of shocked the world. For Fusco, an artist, writer and professor at Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. , it did more. It set her thinking about how the sight of women as sexual aggressors affected the current state of feminism. The book that was created from this investigation is in four very distinct sections. The first, in the form of a letter to Virginia Woolf Noun 1. Virginia Woolf - English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941) Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, Woolf , begins as a tongue-in-cheek defense of the women but then segues into a more thoughtful feminist essay. This is based on her experience as a student in a class for interrogators. The second section is simply a copy of a censored internal letter in which the FBI reports an instance of a female interrogator using sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. . The third part is the text of a performance Fusco gave in which she posed as an army advocate for this behavior. The final section is in the form of an illustrated training manual, depicting techniques reportedly used by women on Muslim prisoners. As Fusco intends, the entire book is highly unsettling un·set·tle v. un·set·tled, un·set·tling, un·set·tles v.tr. 1. To displace from a settled condition; disrupt. 2. To make uneasy; disturb. v.intr. . ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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