Women And Children By Rosenberg Presents Us Imperialism...

Many know of the horrendous events that took place on September 11th 2011, but what some don’t know are the immediate responses from the US after the occurrence of that event. In the essay â€Å"Rescuing women and children† Rosenberg presents US imperialism and the roles it plays in gender particularly in Afghanistan. I will be discussing how this imperialism affects gender in other countries and the differnces between â€Å"rescuing women and children† and cross-culture solidarity. Rosenberg starts her essay by explained the response from the First Lady nine weeks after the attack on the world trade center. The problem shifts from the distress faced at home to overseas distress instead. The response seemed at the surface to be a cry to help the women and children oppressed in Afghanistan. Rosenberg uses the quote â€Å"The brutal oppression of women is a central goal of the terrorists† from the first lady’s address to the nation to rally together the citizens. On the same day as the address CNN also aired a documentary titled â€Å"Beneath the Veil†. Such documentaries became the way the US viewed foreign countries. They are viewed as weakly and therefore feminine and in need of rescuing. The First lady and the president gathered supporters and were able to sign the Afghan Women and Children Relief Act. The problem I will be focusing on is that of the masculine attributions given to the US and the feminine attributions given to the â€Å"weaker† â€Å"less developed† countries. On one hand the USShow MoreRelatedConstructing My Cultural Identity6012 Words   |  25 Pagesexperiences in a paradigm that takes into account the social dimensions of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other forms of domination. In addition, I employ an anticolonial framework, as this emphasizes the potency of racism, colonization, and imperialism on diasporic peoples and their identity (Dei, 2002). My Discursive Framework As mentioned above, this article takes a Black feminist standpoint in accordance with the perspective of a Black heterosexual woman living in Canada. It is an approach—aRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesHartman Strom, Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform Michael Adas, ed., Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered Janis Appier, Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD Allen Hunter, ed., Rethinking the Cold War Eric Foner, ed., The New American History. Revised and Expanded Edition E SSAYS ON _ T WENTIETH- C ENTURY H ISTORY Edited by MichaelRead MoreOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 PagesWhilst their writing is accessible and engaging, their approach is scholarly and serious. It is so easy for students (and indeed others who should know better) to trivialize this very problematic and challenging subject. This is not the case with the present book. This is a book that deserves to achieve a wide readership. Professor Stephen Ackroyd, Lancaster University, UK This new textbook usefully situates organization theory within the scholarly debates on modernism and postmodernism, and provides