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Acknowledgments

Introduction

The study

Propaganda

Learning war

Reading the news

Transnational sexism

Depicting the veil

1 Rescuing Afghan women

Thank you for the rescue

Victims or villains?

Burqa, hijab, chador, niqab: veiling Orientalism

Orientalizing Afghan masculinity

‘Strange sex’ and ‘dancing boys’

Elections, immolation, safe(r) spaces

2 ‘Real housewives’: married to the enemy

Married to bin Laden

Another kind of rescue tale

All in the family

Dr Germ and Mrs Anthrax

More dangerous women: suicide bombers

‘Survival sex’

Enjoy your freedom. Goodbye

3 ‘Where are the women?’ Muslim women’s visibility and invisibility

Bibi Aisha, Bibi Ayesha, Aesha Mohammadzai, or the Afghan girl without a nose

Visibility = liberation?

Aafia Siddiqui

Transnational visibility

Here’s the dilemma

4 We are all soldiers now: deploying Western women

Female engagement teams

This is what ‘liberation’ looks like

The enemy is us

Doing the empire’s work on page and screen

No sex in the desert

Another blond hero

5 This is what liberation looks like

Leaving Afghanistan and Iraq

Question to Western media: Are we at war?

Hugh Hefner as liberator

Where do we go from here?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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