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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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Schemenauer, Ellie. "Gender, Security and U.S. Illicit Drug Control Policy--Victims and Vamps, Madonnas and Whores: The Construction of Women Drug Couriers and the Practices of a Security State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251749_index.html>

Schemenauer, E. C. , 2008-03-26 "Gender, Security and U.S. Illicit Drug Control Policy--Victims and Vamps, Madonnas and Whores: The Construction of Women Drug Couriers and the Practices of a Security State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251749_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Drawing on the case of women drug couriers and the politics of drug interdiction at the U.S. border, this paper examines the identity producing practices of U.S. illicit drug control policy as it relates to the production of a U.S. security state. Given the highly militarized discourses associated with the "war on drugs," I argue that those charged with border securitization at U.S. international airports struggle to make sense of women drug couriers because they do not fit the often hyper-masculinized images of the drug trafficking enemy. In the process of "making sense" of women drug couriers, I claim that they are constructed as victims or vamps--a take off of the madonna/whore dichotomy and the feminine counterparts to the masculinized enemy construction as well as that of the masculinist state protector.

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