"Photos of Torture and Abuse at Abu-Ghraib Are Evident of the Violent

question 19

Multiple Choice

"Photos of torture and abuse at Abu-Ghraib are evident of the violent act of unveiling, stripping, and penetration, the ultimate act of cultural and sexual domination over an _______ Iraqi order. Male Iraqi prisoners were represented in the Abu-Ghraib photos as the opposite of what a US militarist and hypersexual soldier should be. The Iraqi prisoners were represented as helpless, obedient, and docile (read feminine) others. They were sexually dominated, degraded, and forced to simulate _______ acts. Within this homophobic, militarized, racist, and sexist representation, US military were defining their position as well as the nature of their domination over Iraqi others."

• A) feminized; heterosexual
• B) emasculate; homosexual
• C) masculine; homosocial
• D) masculine; heterosexual
• Popular Culture and Media Representation

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