Depicting the Veil: Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror

Title: Depicting the Veil: Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror
Author: Robin L Riley
H: 1706630
ISBN: 9781780321288
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2013
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 192
Section: History | Middle East | General
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Publisher Description:

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.