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Women Suicide Bombers - Narratives of Violence (Paperback)
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Women Suicide Bombers - Narratives of Violence (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
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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 physicality-for
example, their painted fingernails or their beautiful eyes; their
sexualities; and the various ways in which they have been
victimized by their backward Third World cultures, especially by
"Islam." In contrast, propaganda produced by rebel groups deploying
women bombers, cultures supporting those campaigns, and governments
of those nations at war with sovereign states and Western nations
tend to project women bombers as mythical heroes, in ways that
supersedes the martyrdom operations of male bombers. Many of the
books published on this phenomenon have revealed interesting ways
to read women bombers' subjectivities, but do not explore the
phenomenon of women bombers both inside and outside of their
militant activities, or against the patriarchal, Orientalist, and
Western feminist cultural and theoretical frameworks that label
female bombers primarily as victims of backward cultures. In
contrast, this book offers a corrective lens to the existing
discourse, and encourages a more balanced evaluation of women
bombers in contemporary conflict. This book will be of interest to
students of terrorism, gender studies and security studies in
general.
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