WGS 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lori Piestewa, Shoshana Johnson, Jessica Lynch

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WGS 340
• Professor: Mazie Hough

Document Summary

Deploying race, gender, class, and sexuality in the iraq war. Paper focus: how the iraq war was marketed/represented in media and the connection to race, class, gender, and sexuality. Allows military to create and uphold patterns of gender representation. Suffered injuries from a crash, and was rescued. Outcome: medical honorable discharge, 80% disability benefit. Sustained injuries from being shot, rescued by us. Outcome: temporary disability honorable discharge, 30% disability benefit. Operated humvee (lynch was also in) manuevering around debris until crash. Died from head injury from the crash. Promoted to specialist by army, mountain and highway name changed to honor her. This impacted media coverage/representation/recognition of these women. Lynch"s story dramatized, johnson and piestewa barely talked about. So, gender matters - women appear to be more valuable media commodities than men where dramatic rescues are concerned. (nagel & feitz, 2007:36). Very few images of destruction from iraq war. You may hear about violence, but rarely see it.