The biopower of beauty: Humanitarian imperialisms and global feminisms in an age of terror

Signs

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 359-383

  Stanfill, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLOTHING; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HISTORY; HUMAN RIGHTS; LANGUAGE; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RELIGION; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

AFGHANISTAN; ALTRUISM; CLOTHING; ECONOMICS; FEMINISM; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMAN RIGHTS; ISLAM; LANGUAGE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PUBLIC RELATIONS; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; WOMEN; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 78650445083     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655914     Document Type: Article

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