How various mythologies challenge, enable, and inspire women artists and activists across the globe to communicate personal and historical experiences of violence is the central concern of this collection. Beginning with the observation that twentieth- and twenty-first century female writers and artists often use myth to represent their social and artistic struggles, the distinguished international scholars and writers consider mythic fabulations as spaces for contested meanings and resistant readings. The identified resistance of the mythic material to repression-working, as it were, in...

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.