Tanya Narozhna, W Andy Knight

Female Suicide Bombings

A Critical Gender Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

Female Suicide Bombings critically examines and challenges common assumptions of this loaded term. Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight introduce female suicide bombings as a socio-political practice and a product of deeply politicized, gendered representations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781487520045
• ISBN-10: 1487520042
• Artikelnr.: 45064329

Autorenporträt

Tanya Narozhna is an Associate Professor of Global Politics at the University of Winnipeg. W. Andy Knight is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 
Chapter One: Mapping the Framework: Key Terms and Concepts 
Chapter Two: The History of Modern Female Suicide Bombings: Contextualizing
Acts of Violence 
Chapter Three: Female Suicide Bombings: Between Agential Choice and
Structural Determinism 
Chapter Four: Gender, Power, and Violence: Exploring the Organizations
behind Female Suicide Bombings 
Chapter Five: Global Power, Knowledge, and the Politics of Difference in
the Representations of Female Suicide Bombings 
Chapter Six: Counter-Terrorism, Gender, and Human Security 
Conclusion