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Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence

Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence

Rajan, V. G. Julie

Paperback

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

General Military HistoryGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0415532469
ISBN13: 9780415532464
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 22 2012
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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