Women suicide bombers narratives of violence V.G. Julie Rajan

Por: Idioma: Inglés Series Critical terrorism studies | Critical terrorism studiesDetalles de publicación: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York Routledge 2011Descripción: xii, 384 páginasISBN:
  • 9780203821831
  • 9780415532464
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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.
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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.

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