Keeping the Home Front Burning
2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 6; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14680770600801993
ISSN1471-5902
Autores Tópico(s)Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements Many thanks to Inderpal Grewal, Kathy Johnson, Caren Kaplan, Minoo Moallem, Loretta Stec, and Jennifer Terry for encouraging me to pursue this project. I am indebted to Jillian Sandell and Barbara Voss for their careful readings and to stalwart research assistants Elisabeth Arruda and Nikki Karalekas for transforming piles of notes and clippings into a coherent database from which to think and work. Notes 1. As the participants in the Meridians “Roundtable on Peace” note, the term “peacetime” is often “a word that is bandied about a lot without much thought” (Malathi de Alwis, Rita Arditti, Sandra T. Azar, Amrita Basu, Cynthia Cockburn, Carol Cohn, & Val Moghadam 2001, p. 97). By invoking “wartime” in this essay, I signal the period following September 11, 2001 in which the US government and mass media produced an imagined national community with a shared sense of urgency and risk and a recognized increase in state-sponsored violence. Of course, this imagined community is simultaneously fictive and material: as many have pointed out since September 11, 2001, the “world” did not change that day for many communities both inside and outside the United States, for many “peacetime” was already a fiction prior to the attacks of September 11. 2. See Peggy Noonan's 2001 homage to the “manly men” and commentary by Jennie Ruby (2002 Ruby, Jennie. 2002. “Is this a feminist war?”. In September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives, Edited by: Hawthorne, S. and Spinifex, B. Winter. 148–150. Australia: North Melbourne. [Google Scholar]). Some patriotic lesbians also participated in fetishizing working-class, male masculinity: Norah Vincent writes for The Advocate, “Everyone is getting off on this post-terrorism man thing, it seems, except us dykes. Or at least that's what I thought until I caught myself ogling a [male] construction worker the other day” (2002, p. 72). 3. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1988, p. 305). 4. US nationalist and liberal feminist critiques of “veiling” fail to recognize that often women veil as an act of resistance to western imperialism. See Fadwa El Guindi (1999 El Guindi, Fadwa. 1999. Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). 5. For discussion of the alleged sexual assault, see Kumar (2004 Kumar, Deepa. 2004. War of propoganda and the (ab)uses of women: media constructions of the Jessica Lynch Story. Feminist Media Studies, 4(3): 297–313. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]). 6. On October 17, 2001 Navy Rear Admiral S. R. Pietropaoli sent a letter of apology to the Human Rights Campaign. This apology was reportedly on the websites of the HRC (www.hrc.org) and other gay news outlets (Randy Dotinga 2001 Dotinga, Randy (2001) ‘Navy calls bomb message, “inappropriate“’, 19 October, [Online] Available at: www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2001/10/19/1 (http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2001/10/19/1) (July 2006) [Google Scholar]). 7. Graner, who subsequently married another Abu Ghraib Army guard (Former Spc. Megan Ambuhl, discharged without prison time), was sentenced to ten years in military prison and a dishonorable discharge. England was sentenced to three years.
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