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Depicting the Veil - Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror (Paperback)
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Depicting the Veil - Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror (Paperback)
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This powerful book exposes how gendered Orientalism is wielded to
justify Western imperialism. Over the last ten years, Western
governments and mainstream media have utilized concepts of white
masculine supremacy and feminine helplessness, juxtaposed with
Orientalist images depicting women of color as mysterious,
sinister, and dangerous, to support war. Oscillating between Mrs
Anthrax, female suicide bomber and tragic, helpless victim,
representations of 'brown women' have spawned both rescue
narratives and terrorist alerts. Examining media and pop culture
from Sex and the City 2 to Vanity Fair and Time magazine, Robin
Riley uses transnational feminist analysis to reveal how this kind
of transnational sexism towards Muslim women in general and Afghan
and Iraqi women in particular has led to a new form of gender
imperialism.
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