ABSTRACT
Feminist writer and activist Barbara Ehrenreich argues that the certain naive view of feminism, where women are depicted as caregivers and men as associated with cruelty and violence, has been challenged with the role that women have played regarding abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. The author agrees that this native view that characterizes women as good and men as evil is shallow and needs revision, especially in feminist theory. Stereotypes are basically generalizations lacking in descriptive power and exactness. Images have a context, and much like it is important to understand the context women face when formulating feminist and activist agendas, it is important to understand the context of a photograph to really know the truth of the matter. Clearly, any feminist analysis of these events needs to take into consideration situational power permutations, facts surrounding the events, and not make speculations about behavior to the point of assigning moral and ethical agency.
