Constructing Female Terrorism

Gender, Political Violence and National Identity in Britain and France Since 1952

von Ariane Bogain, Leonie B. Jackson

192 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

News media reporting on female political violence invariably portrays the perpetrators as duped, naïve and exploited, acting from personal rather than political motivations, as anomalous intruders in a masculine realm and de-feminized as monsters. In diminishing the agency of politically violent women, the challenge that female terrorists pose to the gender order is contained. However, the gender order is always in flux, culturally specific and subject to contestation and struggle over the meanings of masculine and feminine.

Using five comparative case studies, spanning more than 70 years, this book demonstrates how politically violent women in terrorist campaigns targeting the UK and France have been represented to contain challenges to nationally specific gender orders. Discourses of belonging via race, ethnicity, religion, geography, and class, are intimately tied to these representations and specific ideas of femininity emerge depending on the threat that particular ideological terrorist campaigns are believed to pose.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9781788218962
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.04.2026
• Größe: 239 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press