Saving Women, Selling War: Feminist Foreign Policy as a Tool of Imperial Power
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoked the rights of Iranian women to rally international support for military action against Tehran, it brought people a sense of deja vu. The language was familiar — the appeal to women’s dignity, the implicit promise of liberation — but so was the source: a long tradition of Western imperialism that historically used the rhetoric of saving women to legitimise war. … Continue readingSaving Women, Selling War: Feminist Foreign Policy as a Tool of Imperial Power