Drawing from current feminist scholarship on intimacy and political economy and using three main frameworks: Fortressing Writs/Exclusionary Rights, Mobile Bodies/Immobile Citizenships, and Bordered/Borderland Identities, a handpicked group of established and rising feminist scholars methodically examine how the production of feminist knowledge has occurred in North America. The economic, racial, gender and sexual normativities that have emerged and/or been reconstituted in neoliberal and securitized North America further reveal the depth of regional and global restructuring.

Anne Sisson Runyan is Professor and former Head of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, USA, and was the lead director of the Women's Human Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in a North American Context exchange project. Amy Lind is the Mary Ellen Heintz Endowed Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Marianne H. Marchand is Professor in the Department of International Relations and Political Science and Coordinator of the Canadian Studies Program at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla where she also founded the North American Studies graduate program. Patricia McDermott is Professor of Law and Society in the School of Social Sciences, former Acting Chair of the School of Women's Studies at York University, Canada.

Introduction, Anne Sisson Runyan, Amy Lind, Patricia McDermott, Marianne H. Marchand; Part I Fortressing Writs/Exclusionary Rights; Chapter 1 Codifying Fortress North America: Receding Rights, Relative Sovereignties, and Gendered and Racialized Restructuring under NAFTA, Caroline Hodes; Chapter 2 Migrant Labor Post-NAFTA: Racialized and Gendered Legal Barriers to the Human Rights of Migrant Mexicans in Canada and the US, Patricia McDermott, Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama; Chapter 3 Falling through the Cracks: Superfluous Women at the Fault Lines of Citizenship, Sovereignty, and Human Rights, Emma R. Norman; Part II Mobile Bodies/Immobile Citizenships; Chapter 4 Neoliberalizing (Re)production: Women, Migration, and Family Planning in the Peripheries of the State, Anna Ochoa O'Leary, Gloria Ciria Valdéz-Gardea; Chapter 5 Engendering Violence in De/Hyper-nationalized Spaces: Border Militarization, State Territorialization, and Embodied Politics at the US-Mexico Border, Amy Lind, Jill Williams; Chapter 6 Securing the State: The Relationship between Anti-Sex Trafficking Legislation and Organizing and the Fortressing of North America, Marjan E. Kamrani, Federica Gentile; Chapter 7 The State, the Catholic Church, and LGBT Rights in North America, Alfonso Gómez Rossi; Part III Bordered/Borderland Identities; Chapter 8 Governing Queer Intimacies at the US-Canada "Border", Melissa Autumn White; Chapter 9 Trastorno transfronterizo/Border Breakdown: Reflections on Translation and Feminist Solidarity, Emily Rosser, Mónica Trujillo-López; Chapter 10 (In)Visible Subjects: Thinking About Transnational Feminism in Fortress North America Through Film, Anne Sisson Runyan;