Weaponising feminism for the “war on terror”, versus employing strategic silence

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1. 1. This question was posed by Gargi Bhattacharyya to the panel during the symposium “Women and US Foreign Policy” held at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, 21 May 2010.

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Nicola Pratt

Nicola Pratt is Reader of the International Politics of the Middle East at the University of Warwick. She writes and researches on gender and politics in the Middle East. Her articles have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, Feminist Review and International Feminist Journal of Politics, amongst others. She is author of What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009, with Nadje Al-Ali).