"War on terror" in the Name
of Feminism

[2012.01.25] The 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City led to a hunt for alleged terrorists worldwide. In American war propaganda, liberating oppressed women was an argument for strikes against Afghanistan and Iraq. Several researchers hold the view that the so-called war against terrorism resulted, instead, in a gigantic setback for gender equality.
 

We all remember what we were doing on that September day in 2011: the day when the Twin Towers in the Big Apple were reduced to a billowing cloud of smoke and ash, and heaps of rubble, with thousands of dead victims. This terrorist atrocity also precipitated the then President George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror’.

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