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(En)gendering the war on terror : war stories and camouflaged politics / War stories and camouflaged politics Engendering the war on terror edited by Krista Hunt, Kim Rygiel. - xvi, 234 pages ; 24 cm. - Gender in a global/local world . - Gender in a global/local world. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index.

(En)gendered war stories and camouflaged politics / Krista Hunt and Kim Rygiel -- Between Orientalism and fundamentalism: Muslim women and feminist engagement / Jasmin Zine -- 'Embedded feminism' and the War on Terror / Krista Hunt -- Benevolent invaders, heroic victims and depraved villains: white femininity in media coverage of the invasion of Iraq / Melisa Brittain -- Rescue in the age of empire: children, masculinity, and the War on Terror / Catherine V. Scott -- White nationalism, illegality and imperialism: border controls as ideology / Nandita Sharma -- Protecting and proving identity: the biopolitics of waging war through citizenship in the post-9/11 era / Kim Rygiel -- The headscarf debate: Muslim women in Europe and the 'War on Terror" / Jane Freedman -- Is 'W' for women? / Zillah Eisenstein.

ISBN: 0754644812 9780754644811

LCCN: 2005026511

Subjects--Topical Terms:
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
Women and war

LC Class. No.: HV6432 / .E64 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 973.931