Women as weapons of war : Iraq, sex, and the media

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Label

Women as weapons of war : Iraq, sex, and the media

Title remainder

Iraq, sex, and the media

Statement of responsibility

Kelly Oliver

Creator

• Oliver, Kelly, 1958-

Subject

• Afghanistan
• Afghanistankrieg
• Berichterstattung
• Electronic books
• Feminist theory
• Feminist theory
• Frau
• Frau
• HISTORY -- Middle East -- General
• Irak
• Irakkrieg
• Iraq
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Press coverage -- United States
• Massamedia
• 2003-2011
• PHILOSOPHY -- Movements | Deconstruction
• Press coverage
• Sekseverschillen
• Seksualiteit
• Soldatin
• USA
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
• United States
• Verenigde Staten
• Vrouwen
• Women and the military
• Women and the military -- Iraq
• Oorlogvoering

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"From the female soldiers involved in Abu Ghraib to Palestinian women suicide bombers, women and their bodies have become powerful weapons in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In Women as Weapons of War, Kelly Oliver reveals how the media arid the administration frequently use metaphors of weaponry to describe women and female sexuality and forge a deliberate link between notions of vulnerability and images of violence. Focusing specifically on the U.S. campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, Oliver analyzes contemporary discourse surrounding women, sex, and gender and the use of women to justify America's decision to go to war. For example, the administration's call to liberate "women of cover," suggesting a woman's right to bare arms is a sign of freedom and progress." "Oliver also considers what forms of cultural meaning, or lack of meaning, could cause both the guiltlessness demonstrated by female soldiers at Abu Ghraib and the profound commitment to death made by suicide bombers. She examines the pleasure taken in violence and the passion for death exhibited by these women and what kind of contexts created them. In conclusion, Oliver diagnoses our cultural fascination with sex, violence, and death and its relationship with live news coverage and embedded reporting, which naturalizes horrific events and stymies critical reflection. This process, she argues, further compromises the borders between fantasy and reality, fueling a kind of paranoid patriotism that results in extreme forms of violence."--Jacket

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

HNK

Dewey number

956.7044/3082

Index

index present

LC call number

U21.75

LC item number

.O43 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography