Fusco recounts posing as a student and undergoing simulated interrogation at the hands of military-intelligence trainers Team Delta, where her instructor explained: "All an interrogator really needed to do was plant fear in one's head and let the mind do all the work." Fusco then details her experience (the male interrogators kept her hooded and disoriented but decided against staging a mock-rape) in a letter to Virginia Woolf, who lived through the Great War and believed that women could end the killing by refusing to participate in the "women's work" of war. But according to Fusco, "equal opportunity in the twenty-first century has been interpreted as obtaining access to hierarchical institutions and power structures that perpetuate male dominance, racism, and American political hegemony." With accompanying directions and color illustrations of torture poses, this primer is a layered and provocative anti–Miss Manners for the war on terror.