feminist or gender representation that includes the discourse on the US war on Drugs in Latin America.
The paper’s objectives are to give a feminist or gender representation that includes the discourse on the US war on Drugs in Latin America. Drawing upon the women’s activist writing on global security, this article investigates a portion of the subtleties of the US war-on-drugs talk with regards to sex. It contends that, albeit a gendered talk has been continually present in US official talk, it has changed in character as the USA’s antidrug arrangements turned out to be progressively internationalized, mobilized, and situated by a ‘gracefully side methodology.’
Once conveyed through the feminization of medication utilization as an ethical corruption of the country’s human body, US war-on-drugs talk distinguishably changed to incorporate a procedure of hyper-masculinization of the figure of the US tranquilize warrior, bolstered by subordinate masculinities and femininities spoke to by the inferior, feminized Latin American medication warriors, and the savage, hyper-forceful medication rulers. At last, the gender(ed) map-making methods of the USA’s war-on-drugs talk function as states of opportunities for confining the war on drugs as the main ‘answer for’ the ‘sedate issue’ and reaffirm the ceaseless quest for sway that has as its definitive objective the complete control, mastery, and cautiousness of human association with psychoactive substances: properties of an overbearing state manliness second to none. Through gendered (in)security performances, the state safeguards its ‘physical’ fringes from outer dangers and its outskirts of plausibility.