ABSTRACT
The previous chapter provided a feminist analysis of the discourse that legitimated the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and showed how it reiterated particular gendered, racialised, and sexualised logics that in various ways reverberate during the entirety of the war in Afghanistan. The disciplining of ‘the body in the burqa’ and the juxtaposition of the ‘inferior masculinity’ of the Taliban against performances of protective masculinity shows a complex web of legitimation for the invasion and the following military campaigns.
