Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya

Dangerous Brown Men

Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the 'War on Terror'

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In this book, Gargi Bhattacharyya examines the way in which western imperial violence associates itself with the rhetoric of rights and democracy--a project of bombing for freedom that calls into question the validity of western conceptions of democracy, rights and feminism. Such rhetoric has accompanied actions that go beyond simply protecting western interests or securing access to scarce resources. The articulations of racism that appear with the war on terror are animated by fears and sexual fantasies inexplicable by rational interest alone. Understanding this highly sexualized racism reveals the intense contradictions of imperial relatio… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84277-879-1
EAN: 9781842778791
Produktnummer: 3578621
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.1 cm 230 g
Gewicht: 230
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Gargi Bhattacharyya lives and works in Birmingham. She teaches and researches issues of 'race' and racisms, sexuality and globalisation. Her books include Tales of Dark-skinned Women (UCL, 1998); Race and Power with John Gabriel and Stephen Small (Routledge, 2001); Sexuality and Society (Routledge, 2002); Traffick, the illicit movement of people and things, (Pluto, 2005).