LEADER 04139oam 2200685I 450 001 9910807178303321 005 20230725053830.0 010 $a1-136-76020-2 010 $a9786613250087 010 $a1-283-25008-X 010 $a1-136-76021-0 010 $a0-203-82183-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203821831 035 $a(CKB)2550000000065669 035 $a(EBL)684097 035 $a(OCoLC)773564591 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000528373 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11930023 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000528373 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10562094 035 $a(PQKB)11017511 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC684097 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL684097 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514312 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL325008 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000065669 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen suicide bombers $enarratives of violence /$fV.G. 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 $aThis book offers an evaluation of female suicide bombers through postcolonial, Third World, feminist, and human-rights framework, drawing on case studies from conflicts in Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Chechnya, among others.Women Suicide Bombers explores why cultural, media and political reports from various geographies present different information about and portraits of the same women suicide bombers. The majority of Western media and sovereign states engaged in wars against groups deploying bombings tend to focus on women bombers' abnormal mental conditions; their phy 410 0$aCritical terrorism studies. 606 $aWomen suicide bombers 606 $aWomen terrorists 606 $aWomen suicide bombers$vCase studies 615 0$aWomen suicide bombers. 615 0$aWomen terrorists. 615 0$aWomen suicide bombers 676 $a363.325082 700 $aRajan$b V. G. Julie.$0868376 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807178303321 996 $aWomen suicide bombers$94080320 997 $aUNINA