Death in the Shape of a Young Girl Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction
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 pol...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press
2015.
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| Series: | Gender and political violence series.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803296606719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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?"
