So rights have to be partially sacrificed (second class citizens) or worse obliterated (bare life) in the name of national progress, in the name of global competitiveness. And if the majority of laborers in the FTZs or special zones are (color) women (for their labor is easiest to cheapen or devalorize), then neoliberal governmentality must also be accompanied by patriarchical discourses on what it means to be good mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters to justify the exploitation of female bodies. In this case, neoliberal governmentality can also be patriarchical-aside from being racist. Under the quasi-sovereign power of private corporations 'that is, in the neoliberal zones of exception' bodies are gendered and treated differentially. Put another way, the flexible sovereignty of the market-state, which accommodates global capitalism, also produces flexible citizenship, intensifying the tensions of democracy. This also