Robin L. Riley

Depicting the Veil

Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 transnational sexism towards Muslim women in general and Afghan and Iraqi women in particular has led to a new form of gender imperialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9781780321288
• ISBN-10: 1780321287
• Artikelnr.: 38468616

Autorenporträt

Robin L. Riley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Rescuing Afghan women 2. 'Real housewives': married to the
enemy 3. 'Where are the women?': Muslim women's visibility and invisibility
4. We are all soldiers now: deploying Western women 5. This is what
liberation looks like