TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Globalisation masculinities, empire building and forced prostitution: a critical analysis of the gendered impact of the neoliberal economic agenda in post-invasion/occupation Iraq
JO  - Third World quarterly
A1  - Banwell, Stacy
SP  - 705
EP  - 722
VL  - 36
IS  - 4
N2  - Adopting a transnational feminist lens and using a political economy approach, this article addresses both the direct and indirect consequences of the 2003 war in Iraq, specifically the impact on civilian women. Pre-war security and gender relations in Iraq will be compared with the situation post-invasion/occupation. The article examines the globalised processes of capitalism, neoliberalism and neo-colonialism and their impact on the political, social and economic infrastructure in Iraq. Particular attention will be paid to illicit and informal economies: coping, combat and criminal. The 2003 Iraq war was fought using masculinities of empire, post-colonialism and neoliberalism. Using the example of forced prostitution, the article will argue that these globalisation masculinities - specifically the privatisation agenda of the West and its illegal economic occupation - have resulted in women either being forced into the illicit (coping) economy as a means of survival, or trafficked for sexual slavery by profit-seeking criminal networks who exploit the informal economy in a post-invasion/occupation Iraq.     Keywords:neoliberalism; gender-based violence; globalisation masculinities; post-colonialism; political economy; transnational feminism, Human trafficking<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0143-6597
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1024434
ID  - ref1
ER  -