Gender, Orientalism, and the War on Terror' - 9780367889692

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Gender, Orientalism, and the War on Terror'Representation, Discourse, and Intervention in Global Politics\nAuthor(s): Maryam Khalid\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367889692, 978-0367889692\nSynopsis\nThis book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the War on Terror, based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses gendered orientalism as a lens through which to read the relationship between the George W. Bush administration, gendered and racialized military intervention, and global politics.\n\nKhalid argues that legitimacy, power, and authority in global politics, and the War on Terror specifically, are discursively constructed through representations that are gendered and racialized, and often orientalist. Looking at the ways in which official US War on Terror discourse enabled military intervention into Afghanistan and Iraq, the book takes a postcolonial .