Annotated Bibliography On Gender Equality

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HOCHSCHULE RHEIN-WAAL
RHINE-WAAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
FACULTY OF SOCIETY AND ECONOMICS

Handout
SS 2016

Module “Sociocultural Factors”
Course “Sociology of International Relations”
Prof Dr Christine Löw

Empire, Desire and Violence:
A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of the Prisoner ‘Abuse’ in Abu Ghraib and the Question of ‘Gender Equality’
Richter-Montpetit, Melanie (2007), International Feminist Journal of Politics

Alexander Hartwein
Matriculation Number:
17418

Due Date:
30 May 2016
Main Content:
Detainee abuses in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq 2003
• Controversy if female soldier’s participation proofs ‘gender equality’
• Analysis of the foreign policy under the G.W. Bush administration
• Justification of waging a war to save the civilization and the criticism
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Especially about the gender equality which is underlined by the fact, that also female soldiers participated in the same extend as their male soldiers as Ehrenreich assumes. Maleanie Richter-Montpetit has a continuous, strong argumentation during her expression in her written article.

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Female soldiers enacting acts of torture on bodies of detainees in Abu Graib prison are horrifying and constitute a sign of ‘gender equality’ Ehrenreich

Author: Soldiers follow a preconstructed heterosexed, racialized and gendered script.

Right to dominate others for their own good, others who are expected to be grateful 40
Torture and murder of prisoners were acts of colonial violence, firmly rooted in a continuum of racialized (hetro)sexualized, classed