1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006981530403321

Autore

Cerboni Baiardi, Giorgio

Titolo

Ugo Foscolo / Guido di Pino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Rai, 1969

Descrizione fisica

188 p.

Collana

Eri classe unica ; 179

Locazione

BAT

Collocazione

BIB. BAT.4057

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000042288

Titolo

The Gothick Novel : a casebook / edited by Victor Sage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Macmillam, 1990

ISBN

0-333-34480-4

0-333-34479-0

Descrizione fisica

190 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Casebook series

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970424003321

Autore

Rajan V. G. Julie

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-136-76020-2

9786613250087

1-283-25008-X

1-136-76021-0

0-203-82183-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Critical terrorism studies

Disciplina

363.325082

Soggetti

Women suicide bombers

Women terrorists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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