Presidential Address: Heroes,Warriors, and Burqas: A Feminist Sociologist's Reflections on September 11 |
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Authors: | Lorber Judith |
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Institution: | (1) Graduate School and Brooklyn College, City University of New York (Emerita), New York, New York |
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Abstract: | My presidential address looked back at the gendered imagery of American heroes and warriors, Muslim terrorists, and oppressed Islamic women as they appeared in comparatively sophisticated media sources in the first 6 months after September 11. The imagery was conventionally gendered, but the actions of women and men reported in the same sources showed multiple gendering—heterogeneity within homogeneity. Making this multiplicity of gendering visible blurs and undermines gender lines and the inequities built on them. The social constructions of heroism, masculinity, and Islamic womanhood are core parts of the gender politics of September 11, a politics deeply embedded in the current debates over the causes and consequences of terrorism and war. |
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Keywords: | September 11 gender masculinity terrorism Islamic feminism |
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