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The Abuse was Reported: Parsonian Gender Roles and Abu Ghraib Transfigurations

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The Abuse was Reported: Parsonian Gender Roles and Abu Ghraib Transfigurations

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ByRyan Ashley Caldwell
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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
Imprint Routledge
Pages 19
eBook ISBN 9781315581897
OA Funder Knowledge Unlatched GmbH

ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses one social theorist, Talcott Parsons, and his notion of instrumental and expressive gender roles, and argue that his gender roles served a multitude of functions simultaneously and especially given the masculinist code of the military. It brings to light how soldiers experienced fear at Abu Ghraib, how female soldiers corrected maltreatment at Abu Ghraib and how power differentials flowed throughout the prison. For Harman, testimony shows that she had an expressive-emotive reaction to the pyramid, and further the fact that both England and Harman only took and posed for photographs rather than organized the pyramid scenario shows their ultimate expressiveness towards the situation in general. It thus seems that female soldiers were used for the humiliation of Iraqi male prisoners, where the cultural constructions of masculinity are unwillingly destabilized through gender and homoerotic torture in front of females, and further these female soldiers were framed as objects complying with male organized torture scenarios.

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