Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
ISSN
1536-5107
Publisher
UCLA School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
In this Article I explore the assertions of "anti-imperialist" feminist scholars who critique "imperial feminism" for its support of the war on terror (WOT). I bring into this analysis the proposition by queer theorists that feminist reliance on male/ female subordination has the potential to not only obscure harm in times of war but also to perpetuate it. As a case study, I focus on the Abu Ghraib prison photos that depict, in part, female soldiers torturing male Iraqi prisoners. In conducting this analysis, I reveal the analytical limitations of dominance and cultural feminists, particularly with regard to male harm at the hands of women.
Recommended Citation
Aziza Ahmed,
When Men Are Harmed: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Torture at Abu Ghraib
,
in
11
UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law
1
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3104
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