FEM 2107 Lecture 9: WEEK NINE PART 2 AND TEN READING NOTES

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2107
• Professor: Patricia Kmiec

Document Summary

Critical gaze on canada"s intervention in afghanistan read through gendered metaphors. Overarching argument: media can produce over simplifies gender dualities. (victim/hero) Intervention presented in media: stereotypes of powerful masculinity and vulnerable femininity, afghan women portrayed as helpless/ passive, need foreigners to bring them out of social/cultural captivity. Jiwani: framing afghan women as victims needing rescue: positions canada as an agent of, chivalric masculinity . Gendered framing: problematic, distorts afghan history/ blames taliban for all problems, promotes islamophobia, implies symbols of gendered oppression (burqa) is created by rigid adherence to islam. Suggests that ultimate goal is to become like western women: ideas of emancipation and liberation may not be the same as western women though. Paradox of victims who are innocent and victims who are blame-worthy . Racialized groups and their experiences are reported differently. Distinctions between worthy and unworthy victims are determined by: race, class, gender, sexuality.