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Depicting the veil : transnational sexism and the war on terror / Robin Lee Riley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2013Description: 1 online resource (vi, 182 pages .)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1780325126
  • 9781780325125
  • 1299830048
  • 9781299830042
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Depicting the veil.DDC classification:
  • 305.48/6971 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1170 .R57 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Rescuing Afghan women -- 2. ̀Real housewives': married to the enemy -- 3. Ẁhere are the women?' Muslim women's visibility and invisibility -- 4. We are all soldiers now: deploying Western women -- 5. This is what liberation looks like.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

1. Rescuing Afghan women -- 2. ̀Real housewives': married to the enemy -- 3. Ẁhere are the women?' Muslim women's visibility and invisibility -- 4. We are all soldiers now: deploying Western women -- 5. This is what liberation looks like.

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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