06623oam 22011654a 450 99658206500331620230126212840.01-4798-2022-91-4798-0760-510.18574/9781479820221(CKB)3710000000397672(EBL)2008446(SSID)ssj0001458421(PQKBManifestationID)11822934(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001458421(PQKBWorkID)11443847(PQKB)11075751(MiAaPQ)EBC2008446(DE-B1597)546989(DE-B1597)9781479820221(OCoLC)907677955(MdBmJHUP)muse86918(EXLCZ)99371000000039767220150223d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDeath in the Shape of a Young GirlWomen's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction /Patricia MelzerNew York :New York University Press,2015.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2021©2015.1 online resource (624 p.)Gender and political violence series"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.1-4798-6407-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: "An excess of women's emancipation" : gender, political violence, and feminist politics -- The other half of the sky : revolutionary violence, the RAF, and the autonomous women's movement -- "Between a rock and a hard place" : the "betrayal" of motherhood among the women of the RAF and Movement 2nd June -- "Terrorist girls" and "wild furies" : feminist responses to media representations of women terrorists during the "German Autumn" of 1977 -- The gendered politics of starving : (state) power and the body as locus of political subjectivities in the RAF hunger strikes -- "We women are the better half of humanity anyway" : revolutionary politics, feminism, and memory in the writings of female terrorists -- Conclusion: "Can political violence be feminist?"In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. In the years to come, the bombings, shootings, kidnappings and bank robberies of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Movement 2nd June dominated newspaper headlines and polarized legislative debates. Half of the terrorists declaring war on the West German state were women who understood their violent political actions to be part of their liberation from restrictive gender norms. As women participating in a brand of systematic violence usually associated with masculinity, they presented a cultural paradox, and their political decisions were viewed as gender transgressions by the state, the public, and even the burgeoning women’s movement, which considered violence as patriarchal and unfeminist. Death in the Shape of a Young Girl questions this separation of political violence from feminist politics and offers a new understanding of left-wing female terrorists’ actions as feminist practices that challenged existing gender ideologies. Patricia Melzer draws on archival sources, unpublished letters, and interviews with former activists to paint a fresh and interdisciplinary picture of West Germany’s most notorious political group, from feminist responses to sexist media coverage of female terrorists to the gendered nature of their infamous hunger strikes while in prison. Placing the controversial actions of the Red Army Faction into the context of feminist politics, Death in the Shape of a Young Girl offers an innovative and engaging cultural history that foregrounds how gender shapes our perception of women’s political choices and of any kind of political violence.Gender and political violence series.Politiska förhållandensaoKönsrollerpolitiska aspektersaoPolitiskt våldgenusaspektersaoKvinnliga revolutionärersaoKvinnliga terroristersaoTerrorismusgndFraugndPolitikgndGewaltgndWomen terroristsfast(OCoLC)fst01178616Women revolutionariesfast(OCoLC)fst01178470Women political activistsfast(OCoLC)fst01178374Social conditionsfast(OCoLC)fst01919811Sex rolePolitical aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst01114616Politics and governmentfast(OCoLC)fst01919741Political violencefast(OCoLC)fst01069902FeminismPolitical aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00922695FeminismPolitical aspectsGermanyHistory20th centurySex rolePolitical aspectsGermanyHistory20th centuryPolitical violenceGermanyHistory20th centuryWomen political activistsGermanyHistory20th centuryWomen revolutionariesGermanyHistory20th centuryWomen terroristsGermanyHistory20th centuryGermanyfastGermanySocial conditions20th centuryGermanyPolitics and government1945-1990History.History.Politiska förhållanden.Könsrollerpolitiska aspekter.Politiskt våldgenusaspekter.Kvinnliga revolutionärer.Kvinnliga terrorister.TerrorismusFrauPolitikGewaltWomen terrorists.Women revolutionaries.Women political activists.Social conditions.Sex rolePolitical aspects.Politics and government.Political violence.FeminismPolitical aspects.FeminismPolitical aspectsHistorySex rolePolitical aspectsHistoryPolitical violenceHistoryWomen political activistsHistoryWomen revolutionariesHistoryWomen terroristsHistory363.325082/0943Melzer Patricia1970-1663060MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996582065003316Death in the Shape of a Young Girl4128265UNISA