A Field Guide For Female Interrogators

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Combining an art project with critical commentary, Fusco imaginatively addresses the role of women in the war on terror and explores how female sexuality is being used as a weapon against Islamic terrorists. Using details drawn from actual accounts of detainee treatment in US military prisons, Fusco conceives a field guide of instructional drawings that prompts urgent questions regarding the moral dilemma of torture in general and the use of female sexuality specifically.

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Fusco confronts her deeply disturbing material with unflinching bravery and characteristic originality. Publishers Weekly

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COCO FUSCO is a New Yorkbased interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas, and editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (with Brian Wallis). A recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, she is an associate professor at Columbia University. Her work on military interrogation was selected for the 2008 Whitney Biennial.