Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence

ISBN-13: 9780415532464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 400 str.

V.G. Julie Rajan

Opis

This text offers an evaluation of female suicide bombers through postcolonial, Third World feminist and human rights theoretical frameworks, drawing on case studies from conflicts in Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Chechnya, among others.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Phenomenon of Women Bombers  1. Mad, Suicidal, and Mentally Challenged  2. The Female Body: Sexuality, Disease, and Contagion  3. ‘The Woman Question’: Women Bombers as Victims  4. Fabricating the Female Martyr: The Palestinian Case  5. Mothers and the Nation

O autorze

V.G. Julie Rajan is Visiting Assistant Professor at Rutgers University in Women's and Gender Studies, and has a PhD in Comparative Literature.