Gender and the Political Deconstructing the Female Terrorist

Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural constructions of the female terrorist. The chapters argue that the development of the discourse on terrorism e

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10.1057/9781137402769 - Gender and the Political, Amanda Third

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Gender and the Political

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Deconstructing the Female Terrorist

Amanda Third

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Gender and the Political

gender and the political Copyright © Amanda Third, 2014.

First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. E-ISBN: 978-1-137-40276-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Third, Amanda, 1972– Gender and the political:deconstructing the female terrorist/Amanda Third. pages  cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-137-40275-2 (hardback : alk. paper) Women terrorists. 2.  Terrorism. 3. Feminism. I.  Title. 1.  HV6431.T56687  2014 363.325082—dc23 2014015561 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by SPi Global. First edition: October 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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Acknowledgmentsix Introduction1 1 Conceptualizing Terrorism 9 2 Constructing the Terrorist: The Threat from Within 27 3 Feminist Terrorists and Terrorist Feminists: The Crosswiring of Feminism with Terrorism 53 4 Terrorist Time: Terrorism’s Disruption of Modernity 71 5 Conjuring the Apocalypse: Radical Feminism, Apocalyptic Temporality, and the Society for Cutting Up Men 91 6