LEADER 03494nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910457375103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-8504-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000347189 035 $a(EBL)310297 035 $a(OCoLC)476093659 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000232985 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11187972 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232985 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10220680 035 $a(PQKB)11075235 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310297 035 $a(OCoLC)122891327 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse39724 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310297 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10159399 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL523344 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000347189 100 $a19940217d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading Dido$b[electronic resource] $egender, textuality, and the medieval Aeneid /$fMarilynn Desmond 210 $aMinnepolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (314 p.) 225 1 $aMedieval cultures ;$vv. 8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-2247-7 311 $a0-8166-2246-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Gender and the Politics of Reading Virgil; 1. Dux Femina Facti: Virgil's Dido in the Historical Context; 2. Dido as Libido: From Augustine to Dante; 3. Dido in Courtly Romance and the Structures of History; 4. Sely Dido and the Chaucerian Gaze; 5. Dido's Double Wound in Caxton's Eneydos and Gavin Douglas's Eneados; 6. Christine de Pizan's Feminist Self-Fashioning and the Invention of Dido; Epilogue: On Reading Dido; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index 330 $aMarilynn Desmond recovers an alternative Virgil from historical tradition and provides a new model for reading the Aeneid. 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Julie Rajan 210 1$aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 225 1 $aCritical terrorism studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-53246-9 311 $a0-415-55225-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWomen 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 327 $aUnaware 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 327 $a4 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 330 $aThis 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. 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