Format:
Online-Ressource (194 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781780321288
Content:
Over the last ten years, Western governments and mainstream media have used concepts of white masculine supremacy and feminine helplessness, juxtaposed depictions of women of color as mysterious, sinister and dangerous, to support war. Oscillating between suicide bomber and helpless victim, representations of 'brown women' have spawned both rescue narratives and terrorist alerts. Robin Riley reveals how this kind of transnational sexism has led to a new form of gender imperialism
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Description based upon print version of record
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About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The study; Propaganda; Learning war; Reading the news; Transnational sexism; Depicting the veil; 1 Rescuing Afghan women; Thank you for the rescue; Victims or villains?; Burqa, hijab, chador, niqab: veiling Orientalism; Orientalizing Afghan masculinity; 'Strange sex' and 'dancing boys'; Elections, immolation, safe(r) spaces; 2 'Real housewives': married to the enemy; Married to bin Laden; Another kind of rescue tale; All in the family; Dr Germ and Mrs Anthrax; More dangerous women: suicide bombers; 'Survival sex'
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Enjoy your freedom. Goodbye3 'Where are the women?' Muslim women's visibility and invisibility; Bibi Aisha, Bibi Ayesha, Aesha Mohammadzai, or the Afghan girl without a nose; Visibility = liberation?; Aafia Siddiqui; Transnational visibility; Here's the dilemma; 4 We are all soldiers now: deploying Western women; Female engagement teams; This is what 'liberation' looks like; The enemy is us; Doing the empire's work on page and screen; No sex in the desert; Another blond hero; 5 This is what liberation looks like; Leaving Afghanistan and Iraq; Question to Western media: Are we at war?
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Hugh Hefner as liberatorWhere do we go from here?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About Zed Books
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780325125
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780321288
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Depicting the Veil : Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror
Language:
English
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