Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics

Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics
ISBN-10
1842778668
ISBN-13
9781842778661
Category
Political Science
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
2007-12-15
Publisher
Zed Books
Authors
Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry

Description

Introduction : a woman did that? -- Narratives of mothers, monsters and whores -- Triple transgressions at Abu Ghraib -- Black widows in Chechnya -- Dying for sex and love in the Middle East -- Gendered perpetrators of genocide -- Gendering people's violence -- Conclusion : let us now see 'bad' women

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