Concluding Remarks

Outer Eyes, Inner Worlds asks us to reevaluate the intercorrelations between gender, race, trauma, interpersonal violence, and surveillance as both co-informing and co-contributing forces to structures of disciplinary power. Through Gatwood’s work Life of the Party, Gelfand investigates how true crime media informs one’s individual experience of fear of sexualized violence and the dynamics enmeshed in mechanisms of white supremacy and patriarchy. Through Cha’s work Dictee, Kim aims to examine the continued effects of militarized violence experienced by Korean military brides living in the US, and highlight how sociality was both maintained and reimagined in midst of surveillant control. Together, both chapters employ the sociological imagination as a means of conversing how interpersonal worlds of women are written within gazed dialectics of violence and surveillance. From this construction, this book highlights the forms of resistance these women create against structures of interpersonal institutional violence, more so, calls attention to the embodied resiliency of these women. This book seeks not to contribute to the narrative that purely pathologizes individuals who experienced forms of violence, but strives to acknowledge the resiliency these women carry in conversation to the experiences they have faced.