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Death in the shape of a young girl : women's political violence in the Red Army Faction / Patricia Melzer.
LIBRA HV6433.G32 R655 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melzer, Patricia, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Gender and political violence series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rote Armee Fraktion--History.
- Rote Armee Fraktion.
- Women terrorists--Germany--History--20th century.
- Women terrorists.
- Women revolutionaries--Germany--History--20th century.
- Women revolutionaries.
- Women political activists--Germany--History--20th century.
- Women political activists.
- Political violence--Germany--History--20th century.
- Political violence.
- Sex role--Political aspects--Germany--History--20th century.
- Sex role.
- Feminism--Political aspects--Germany--History--20th century.
- Feminism.
- Feminism--Political aspects.
- History.
- Sex role--Political aspects.
- Germany--Politics and government--1945-1990.
- Germany.
- Politics and government.
- Germany--Social conditions--20th century.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction : "An excess of women's emancipation" : gender, political violence, and feminist politics
- The other half of the sky : revolutionary violence, the RAF, and the autonomous women's movement
- "Between a rock and a hard place" : the "betrayal" of motherhood among the women of the RAF and Movement 2nd June
- "Terrorist girls" and "wild furies" : feminist responses to media representations of women terrorists during the "German Autumn" of 1977
- The gendered politics of starving : (state) power and the body as locus of political subjectivities in the RAF hunger strikes
- "We women are the better half of humanity anyway" : revolutionary politics, feminism, and memory in the writings of female terrorists
- Conclusion : "Can political violence be feminist?"
- Notes:
- "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479864072
- 1479864072
- OCLC:
- 893452372
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