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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajan, V. G. Julie, author.

Series:

Critical terrorism studies.

Critical terrorism studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women suicide bombers.

Women terrorists.

Women suicide bombers--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 various geographies present different information about and portraits of the same women suicide bombers. The majority of Western media and sovereign states engaged in wars against groups deploying bombings tend to focus on women bombers' abnormal mental conditions; their phy

Contents:

Women Suicide Bombers Narratives of violence; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 inept2 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 caseHistoric 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-76020-2

9786613250087

1-283-25008-X

1-136-76021-0

0-203-82183-1

9780203821831

OCLC:

773564591