ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book demonstrates how official US 'War on Terror' discourse employs logics of gendered orientalism in representations of identities, events, and knowledge, in order to create a 'reality' in which military interventions into Afghanistan and Iraq become discursively enabled. Understanding orientalism as gendered gives very particular insights into 'War on Terror' (and other) discourses that cannot be achieved if people only look for racialised logics in orientalist discourse, or consider gender to be a sub-category of orientalism. The book explaines that the 'Other' was marked as barbaric not only by what 'he' inflicted upon the US on 11 September 2001, but also because of broader failures to conform to what was projected as 'our civilisation'. Gendered orientalist discourses of intervention have long been deployed in the service of intervention and other forms of imperialism.
