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Defending Modernity? High Politics, Feminist Anti-Modernism, and the Place of Gender

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2005

Julia Adams  and
Ann Shola Orloff
Julia Adams
Affiliation:
Yale University
Ann Shola Orloff
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
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In the wake of 9/11 and the subsequent struggles in Afghanistan and Iraq, gender has become even more obviously important for understanding contemporary world politics, including armed conflict and war. Gender is an explicit structuring principle of contemporary conflicts between Western powers and an Islamist fundamentalism energized by opposition to the freedoms enjoyed by Western women and committed to the imposition of a version of sharia that explicitly denies to women rights equal to men's.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 166 - 182
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© 2005 The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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