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Women suicide bombers : narratives of violence
- Title
- Women suicide bombers : narratives of violence / V.G. Julie Rajan.
- Author
- Rajan, V. G. Julie.
- Publication
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 384 pages; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- Critical terrorism studies
- Uniform Title
- Critical terrorism studies.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-743
- ISBN
- 9780415552257 (hardcover)
- 0415552257 (hardcover)
- 9780203821831 (ebk.)
- 0203821831 (ebk.)
- LCCN
- 2010041819
- OCLC
- 670211490
- Author
- Rajan, V. G. Julie.
- Title
- Women suicide bombers : narratives of violence / V.G. Julie Rajan.
- Imprint
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Critical terrorism studiesCritical terrorism studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-743