Sarah’s Reviews > What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq > Status Update

"On the ground in Iraq, however, the Bush administration's "empowerment agenda" has done little to empower women. The rhetoric of women's empowerment is instrumentalized by the administration for its own foreign policy ends. The apparent acknowledgment of Iraqi women's active role has been restricted to that of symbols of a new post-Saddam Hussein order that is congruent with U.S. Foreign policy interests"