Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index.
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(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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In this volume the contributors examine how diverse international actors are using the 'war on terror' as an opportunity to reinforce existing gendered, raced, classed and sexualized intra- and international relations.