ABSTRACT
Feminist scholars have devoted considerable attention to the growing trend of women’s return to the domestic realm after 9/11. This chapter builds upon this analysis and explores representations of home and family within urban captivity narratives. Drawing on Foucauldian discussions of biopower and the field of trauma studies to untangle seemingly contradictory figuration of the home as simultaneously empowering and oppressive, this chapter argues that the parallel traumas of 9/11 and scripts championing women’s to return the domestic realm reveal the ways that the management of life and sexuality exacerbate fears of the racial and sexual predator that resurged after the attacks.
