(En)gendering the war on terror [electronic resource] : war stories and camouflaged politics / edited by Krista Hunt, Kim Rygiel.

Contributor(s): Series: Gender in a global/local worldPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.Description: xvi, 234 p. ; 24 cmOther title:
  • Engendering the war on terror
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973.931 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6432 .E64 2006eb
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Contents:
(En)gendered war stories and camouflaged politics / Krista Hunt and Kim Rygiel -- Between Orientalism and fundamentalism: Muslim women and feminist engagement / Jasmin Zine -- 'Embedded feminism' and the War on Terror / Krista Hunt -- Benevolent invaders, heroic victims and depraved villains: white femininity in media coverage of the invasion of Iraq / Melisa Brittain -- Rescue in the age of empire: children, masculinity, and the War on Terror / Catherine V. Scott -- White nationalism, illegality and imperialism: border controls as ideology / Nandita Sharma -- Protecting and proving identity: the biopolitics of waging war through citizenship in the post-9/11 era / Kim Rygiel -- The headscarf debate: Muslim women in Europe and the 'War on Terror" / Jane Freedman -- Is 'W' for women? / Zillah Eisenstein.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-227) and index.

(En)gendered war stories and camouflaged politics / Krista Hunt and Kim Rygiel -- Between Orientalism and fundamentalism: Muslim women and feminist engagement / Jasmin Zine -- 'Embedded feminism' and the War on Terror / Krista Hunt -- Benevolent invaders, heroic victims and depraved villains: white femininity in media coverage of the invasion of Iraq / Melisa Brittain -- Rescue in the age of empire: children, masculinity, and the War on Terror / Catherine V. Scott -- White nationalism, illegality and imperialism: border controls as ideology / Nandita Sharma -- Protecting and proving identity: the biopolitics of waging war through citizenship in the post-9/11 era / Kim Rygiel -- The headscarf debate: Muslim women in Europe and the 'War on Terror" / Jane Freedman -- Is 'W' for women? / Zillah Eisenstein.

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