The gender apparatus: Torture and national manhood in the US ‘war on terror’

Bonnie Mann ~ RP 168 (Jul/Aug 2011) ~ Article

The gender apparatus Torture and national manhood in the US ‘war on terror’ Bonnie mann Feminist protest against US torture practices, including outcries over the use of sex, sexuality and sexual identity in the torture of prisoners at US detention sites from Guantánamo to Abu Ghraib, have understandably tended to focus on what the abuse […]

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Martin Ryle, Kaye Mitchell, Roger Foster, Wesley Phillips, Matthew Hughes and Daniel Woodley ~ RP 147 (Jan/Feb 2008) ~ Reviews

One of Bruce Robbins’s epigraphs is from Irving Howe, lamenting that ‘the welfare state does not seem able to arouse strong loyalties’ and can draw on ‘no encompassing mystique’. Certainly it would be daunting, not to say quixotic, to look back at the literary record of the liberal democracies Robbins focuses on (France, Britain and […]