Gender, Orientalism, and the 'War on Terror': Representation, Discourse, and Intervention in Global Politics

by Maryam Khalid

This 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. Khalid argues that legitimacy, power, and authority in global politics, and the 'War on Terror' specifically,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138200697
• ISBN13: 9781138200692
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"