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Depicting the Veil
Robin L. Riley
其他書名
Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror
出版Zed Books Ltd., 2013-09-12
主題Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN17803251349781780325132
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JW1jDgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.