ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the author's understanding and use of gender and orientalism within the discourse analysis approach, drawing on the operation of these within global politics. The research deploys gender and orientalism as analytical approaches to explain how logics of gendered and orientalist identities, meanings, and images construct and organise the way people give meaning to and interpret our world, its people and events, and the possibilities for action that they prescribe. Together, orientalism and gender as critical lenses illuminate the relationship between depictions of gendered and non-'Western' subjects which lie at the heart of global politics and official US 'War on Terror' discourse. The chapter develops 'gendered orientalism' as a critical lens which can be used to reveal the centrality of racial, cultural, gender, and sexual difference in global politics, and specifically in relation to official US 'War on Terror' discourse and the processes of 'Othering' that shape it.
