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Women suicide bombers : narratives of violence /
This book offers an evaluation of female suicide bombers through postcolonial, Third World, feminist, and human-rights framework, drawing on case studies from conflicts in Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Chechnya, among others. Women Suicide Bombers explores why cultural, media and political reports from...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Colección: | Critical terrorism studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the phenomenon of women bombers. Suicide bombing 101 ; Colonialism and the global divide ; Violence, commodification, and global politics ; Femininity, violence, and agency ; Narrating women bombers: negotiated by and negotiating violence ; Chapter overview ; Methodology, challenges, and reflections
- 1. Mad, suicidal, and mentally challenged. The "native" Other: race, religion, and terrorism ; Deviance: the woman condition ; Women bombers: madness and monstrosity ; Abnormal and suicidal ; Unaware and mentally inept
- 2. The female body: sexuality, disease, and contagion. Voice, visibility, and jouissance ; Female sexuality = political agency ; The Third World woman: body, pop culture, and the femme fatale ; Sexual orientations: transexuals and cross-dressers ; Contagion and sexual borders: white women, conversion, and terrorism
- 3. "The Woman Question": women bombers as victims. "The Woman Question": imperial productions of femininity ; Veiled and silenced: victimizing Muslim women ; Raped and coerced ; Honor and redemption ; Poor and uneducated
- 4. Fabricating the female martyr: the Palestinian case. Historic anti-colonial nationalisms ; Modern anti-state nationalisms ; Women in rebel nations, and women rebels ; The Palestinian case
- 5. Mothers and the nation. Mother-as-nation: anti-colonial nationalism ; Mothers and martyrs ; Rebel projections of mother-and-child ; The Western lens: defining the moral maternal ; Disturbing mother figures ; Pregnancy, mimicry, and in-between ; Challenges and critiques.