War of images and images of war: Rape and sacrifice in the Iraq war

Abstract

This article addresses one of the great issues about which global media remains silent: the rape of Muslim women by U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Contemporary mediascape is prolix. But some silences remain, such as the issue of rape during war. With an anthropological approach to the meaning of war and through the analysis of images, the article focuses on the participation of women in this male space. Copyright © 2007 by Revista Estudos Feministas.