What Kind of Liberation: Women and the Occupation of Iraq
What Kind of Liberation: Women and the Occupation of Iraq
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什么样的解放:妇女与伊拉克的占领
DOI:
10.1080/00472336.2011.530050
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Herb Thompson
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作者:
Herb Thompson
During the Republican National Convention in 2004, George W. Bush declared that with the ‘‘use of American power’’in Afghanistan and Iraq,‘‘young women across the Middle East will hear the message that their day of equality and justice is coming’’(Official George W. Bush acceptance speech, 2 September 2004, http://uspolitics. about. com/od/speeches/a/bush_speech. htm). Al-Ali and Pratt have a two-fold purpose in their endeavour. They want to show the inanity of any argument that the war in Iraq is liberating, or has liberated, women without the essential sufficient qualification to what exactly is meant by ‘‘liberation’’; and they insist that gender always be put on the table to begin any proper analysis of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. War, violence, occupation, armed struggle and poverty induced by international boycotts, have