Beyond mothers, monsters, whores thinking about women's violence in global politics
When we discuss violent acts committed by women, our responses are almost always rooted in deeply gendered assumptions about women. We express surprise and shock that a woman could be capable of such an act--a reaction that relies on a long history of unspoken assumptions about what is proper behavi...
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London :
Zed Books
[2015]
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004557959708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: A Woman Did That?
- 2. Seeing Gender In Theories Of People's Political Violence
- 3. Seeing women's extralegal violence
- 4. Saving, Supporting And Supplicating: The Mother Narrative
- 5. Femininity Gone Awry: The Monster Narrative
- 6. Sex/Violence: The Whore Narrative
- 7. Conclusion: Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores
