Fallgirls : gender and the framing of torture at Abu Ghraib /

Caldwell, Ryan Ashley.,

Fallgirls : gender and the framing of torture at Abu Ghraib / Ryan Ashley Caldwell. - 1 online resource

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-208) and index.

1. It was not Lucifer achieved : Zimbardo, women, and Abu Ghraib -- 2. Abu Ghraib and the "rationalization" of rationality : uses of the masculine and feminine symbolic narrative -- 3. The abuse was reported : parsonian gender roles and Abu Ghraib transfigurations -- 4. The significance of identity simulacra and gender hyperreality : American military and the case of Abu Ghriab -- 5. The Fallgirls of Abu Ghraib : feminist analyses and the importance of context -- 6. Conversations with Sabrina Harman, summer 2007.

9781315581897 9781317136644 9781317136651

10.4324/9781315581897 doi


Abu Ghraib Prison.


Prisoners of war--Abuse of--Iraq.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Psychological aspects.
Torture--Iraq.
Women and war--United States.
Control (Psychology)
Women in war.
Feminist theory.

DS79.76 / C353 2016

956.704437 / C147