1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910633949603321

Autore

Caldwell Ryan Ashley

Titolo

Fallgirls

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, UK, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

9786613479884

9781409495215

1409495213

9781317136668

1317136667

9781315581897

1315581892

9781317136651

1317136659

9781283479882

1283479885

9781409429708

1409429709

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Classical and contemporary social theory

Classificazione

SOC028000

Disciplina

956.7044/37

Soggetti

Women in war

Control (Psychology)

Women and war - United States

Torture - Iraq

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Psychological aspects

Prisoners of war - Abuse of - Iraq

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Significant Personnel; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Prologue: So What Really Happened at Abu Ghraib?; Defense Counsel's Opening Statements; 1 It was not Lucifer Achieved: Zimbardo, Women, and Abu Ghraib; Testimony of



Major David DiNenna, U.S. Army, Sabrina Harman Courts-Martial; 3 The Abuse was Reported: Parsonian Gender Roles and Abu Ghraib Transfigurations; Evidence: Sabrina Harman's Letter to Kelly Bryant, Sabrina Harman Courts-Martial; 4 The Significance of Identity Simulacra and Gender Hyperreality

Testimony of Stjepan G. Mestrovic, Expert Witness in Sociology, Sabrina Harman Courts-Martial5 The Fallgirls of Abu Ghraib: Feminist Analyses and the Importance of Context; 6 Conversations with Sabrina Harman, Summer 2007; Closing Statement of the Defense Counsel, Sabrina Harman Courts-Martial, Captain Patsy Takemura, May 17, 2005, Fort Hood, Texas; Sworn Statements; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Fallgirls provides an analysis of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib in terms of social theory, gender and power, based on first-hand participant-observations of the courts-martials of Lynndie England and Sabrina Harman. This book examines the trials themselves, including interactions with soldiers and defense teams, documents pertaining to the courts-martials, US government reports and photographs from Abu Ghraib, in order to challenge the view that the abuses were carried out at the hands of a few rogue soldiers. With a keen focus on gender and sexuality as prominent aspects of the abuses themselves, as well as the ways in which they were portrayed and tried, Fallgirls engages with modern feminist thought and contemporary social theory in order to analyse the manner in which the abuses were framed, whilst also exploring the various lived realities of Abu Ghraib by both prisoners and soldiers alike.