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This book offers an accessible, timely analysis of the 'War on Terror' using a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses 'gendered orientalism' as a lens through which to read the relationship between the Bush administration, gendered and racialized military intervention, and global politics. It draws upon poststructural an
List of contents
1. Introduction
Identities in the ‘War on Terror’
Discourse: language, identity, power, and representation
Analytic strategy
Outline of the book
2. Gender, Orientalism, and Global Politics
Orientalism and gender as discourseRe-reading Said
‘American orientalism’
Orientalism, race, and gender
Conclusion
3. Gender, Race, ‘Self’, and ‘Other’ in Histories of International Intervention
Imperialism, liberalism and the US
Liberal internationalism and the pre-1945 international system
The ‘underdeveloped’ south in early liberal internationalism
Intervention, development, and the threat of the ‘Other’
Democratisation, humanitarianism, and the responsibility to protect
4. Constructing the US ‘Self’ in ‘War on Terror’ Discourse
‘Self’, nation, race, and gender
Masculinity and the US ‘Self’
Reading femininity(ies) in the US ‘Self’
Conclusion
5. Gendered Orientalist Narratives: Afghanistan
‘Saving’ Afghanistan
Constructions of the ‘Other’
Developing the narrative: Operation Enduring Freedom
Conclusion
6. Gendered Orientalist Narratives: Iraq
Consolidating gendered orientalist discourse
‘Liberating’ Iraq
The sexuality of the ‘Other’
Conclusion
7. Conclusions
About the author
Maryam Khalid is a Lecturer and the Director of the Bachelor of International Studies program at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research is focused on global politics, security, and popular culture, exploring gender, sexuality, and race as processes, practices, and analytical lenses in and across international relations and global governance discourses.
Summary
This book offers an accessible, timely analysis of the ‘War on Terror’ using a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses ‘gendered orientalism’ as a lens through which to read the relationship between the Bush administration, gendered and racialized military intervention, and global politics. It draws upon poststructural an
