It is shaped by gender as well as Orientalism, and feminist and postcolonial IR should be used in tandem to fight against the suppression of guilt for atrocities committed against faceless, nameless other. Gender policing has marked compassion as a sign of femininity, the ultimate weakness and orientalist discourse has marked the Middle East as a land of terrorist savages wholly deserving of our drone
It is shaped by gender as well as Orientalism, and feminist and postcolonial IR should be used in tandem to fight against the suppression of guilt for atrocities committed against faceless, nameless other. Gender policing has marked compassion as a sign of femininity, the ultimate weakness and orientalist discourse has marked the Middle East as a land of terrorist savages wholly deserving of our drone