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Disciplining Women, Disciplining Women’s Rights

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Building on their discourse of women’s liberation that has figured prominently in the war on terror, the George W. Bush administration has developed and started to implement its “pro-women” foreign policy agenda. Through the U.S. State Department’s Office of International Women’s Issues (OIWI), the Bush administration has declared its commitment to “the worldwide advancement of women’s issues” (Powell 2002). According to former secretary of state Colin Powell, promoting women’s issues is “not only in keeping with the deeply held values of the American people; it is strongly in our national interest as well” (Powell 2002). Currently, the Bush administration claims that it has embarked on a mission to empower Afghan, Iraqi, and Middle Eastern women by granting them economic and political rights. It contends that as “Muslim-majority countries” become more respectful of women, the United States and the rest of the world will become more secure and more prosperous.

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Hunt, K. (2008). Disciplining Women, Disciplining Women’s Rights. In: Leatherman, J. (eds) Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230612792_3

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