Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib by Ryan Ashley Caldwell

By Ryan Ashley Caldwell

Fallgirls offers an research of the abuses that came about at Abu Ghraib by way of social concept, gender and gear, in accordance with first-hand participant-observations of the courts-martials of Lynndie England and Sabrina Harman. This booklet examines the rigors themselves, together with interactions with squaddies and protection groups, files bearing on the courts-martials, US executive experiences and pictures from Abu Ghraib, so as to problem the view that the abuses have been performed by the hands of some rogue squaddies. With a prepared concentrate on gender and sexuality as admired facets of the abuses themselves, in addition to the ways that they have been portrayed and attempted, Fallgirls engages with glossy feminist suggestion and modern social thought as a way to examine the way during which the abuses have been framed, while additionally exploring some of the lived realities of Abu Ghraib by means of either prisoners and squaddies alike. supplying a different standpoint and an intensive theoretical exam of the occasions, their framing and depiction, this booklet should be of curiosity to sociologists, feminists, and social and political theorists considering cultural reviews, political communique and gender and sexuality.

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