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gender and the framing of torture at Abu Ghraib
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Caldwell, Ryan Ashley
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- geweld, oorlogsslachtoffers, oorlog en vrede, gevangenissen, militaire beroepen, daders, slachtoffers, seksualiteit, Irak, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This book is an analysis of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib based on first-hand participant-observations of the courts - martials of Lynndie England and Sabrina Harman. It examines the trials themselves, including interactions with soldiers and defense teams, documents pertaining to the courts-martials, US government reports and photographs from Abu Ghraib, in order to challenge the view that the abuses were carried out at the hands of a few rogue soldiers. With a keen focus on gender and sexuality as prominent aspects of the abuses themselves, as well as the ways in which they were portrayed and tried, the book engages with modern feminist thought and contemporary social theory in order to analyse the manner in which the abuses were framed, whilst also exploring the various lived realities of Abu Ghraib by both prisoners and soldiers alike.
life without peace in Afghanistan
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jones, Ann
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- V IND 1L 2006
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, oorlog en vrede, geweld, onderwijs, gevangenissen, Afghanistan
- Description
- In February 2003, Jones and her fellow NGO relief workers watched with disbelief and horror as Fox News declared the American war in Afghanistan a success—the Taliban totally defeated, all Afghan women 'liberated' and the infrastructure completely restored. The reality they knew on the ground in Kabul was starkly different. Jones presents her version of the events in this book, which tours Kabul's streets, private homes, schools and women's prison. The political and military history of Afghanistan, as well as its cultural and religious traditions, inform Jones's daily interactions and observations. Describing an English class she taught, Jones says, 'Once, after I explained what blind date meant, a woman said, 'Like my wedding.' ' Jones focuses particularly on Afghan women, whose lives are often permeated by violence.
women as aggressors and torturers
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McKelvey, Tara > (ed.)
- Creator
- Ehrenreich, Barbara > (forew.)
- Contributor
- Enloe, Cynthia
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2007
- Thesaurus
- geweld, daders, gevangenissen, militaire beroepen, krijgsmacht, oorlog en vrede, terrorisme, vrouwbeelden, feminisme, Verenigde Staten, Irak, 2000-2009, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- The contributors examine the expectations placed on women's involvement in violence and diverse aspects of female perpetrators of abuse and torture.
when is life grievable?
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Butler, Judith
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 1M 2009
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, discriminatie, geweld, islam, seksualiteit, homoseksualiteit, gevangenissen, overheid, media, Amerikaans, Irak
- Description
- Butler explores the way that recent US-led wars have enforced a distinction between those lives that are recognized as grievable (the lives of Americans), and those that are not (the lives of Muslims and Iraqis). Especially examined is the Iraq war. Essays written and revised between 2004 and 2008.
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