Gender and the Political [electronic resource] : Deconstructing the Female Terrorist /
Third, A.author.
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 evolves in parallel with, and in response to, radical feminism in the US during this time.
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Cover; Gender and the Political; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Conceptualizing Terrorism; Terrorism: A Nebulous Term?; Terrorism as Communication; Desperately Seeking an Audience; A Note on Discourse; The Emergence of the "Terrorism Industry"; Characteristics of the Discourse on Terrorism; Attacking the State; Chapter 2: Constructing the Terrorist: The Threat from Within; Terrorism = Terrorists: The Emphasis on Perpetrators; Dehistoricizing and Depoliticizing Terrorism; The 1970s "New Breed of Terrorism"; A "Man's Game"
"Shoot the Women First": Constructing the Female Terrorist ThreatThe Female Terrorist as Radical Other; The Female Terrorist as Feminine Excess; The Threatening Woman: Unknowable Femininity; The Impossible Body of Evidence; Chapter 3: Feminist Terrorists and Terrorist Feminists: The Crosswiring of Feminism with Terrorism; The Religious Right, Feminism, and Terrorism; Terrorist Radicals and Radical Terrorists: A Politics of Blame; From the Coffeemaker to the Molotov Cocktail: The Claim That Feminism Leads to Female Terrorism; Backlash; US Urban Terrorism = Female/Feminist Terrorism
Sexualizing the Deviancy of the Female TerroristChapter 4: Terrorist Time: Terrorism's Disruption of Modernity; The Secret Agent; Linear Time and Modernity; Terrorism and Apocalyptic Time; The Everyday of Modernity; Terrorist Tactics; The State and Terror; The Terrorist Society; Mr. Vladimir's Philosophy of Bomb Throwing; Chapter 5: Conjuring the Apocalypse: Radical Feminism, Apocalyptic Temporality, and the Society for Cutting Up Men; Valerie Solanas: Radical Feminist Zeitgeist; Radical Feminist Tactics; Feminism, Modernity, and the Politics of Utopia
Evolution versus Revolution: Feminist Discourses of Social ChangeRadical Feminism's Apocalyptic Vision of Revolution; Radical Feminism and the Everyday; The Terrorist Time of Radical Feminism; Solanas and the Terrorist Spectacle; Reading the SCUM Manifesto as an Attack on the State; The SCUM Manifesto as an Attack on Modernity; The Death of Modern Representation; Postscript: The Erasure of Solanas From Feminist Histories; Chapter 6: Abjecting Whiteness: "The Movement," Radical Feminism, and Genocide; Sketching the Movement: Eschatological Temporality and Despair
The "Disappearance" of the MovementA White Women's Movement; Radical Feminism and Genocide; Abjecting Impossible Whiteness: Feminism and the Call for Gen(der)ocide; Destabilizing the Boundaries between Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence; Chapter 7: Nuclear Terrorists: Patricia Hearst and the (Feminist) Terrorist Family; Terrorist Fiction before Terrorist Fact; "It's a Family Affair": Reading Patty Hearst through the Nuclear Family; The Terror of Incest: The Primal Horde and the Terrorist Family; Exchanging Women: Legitimate and Illegitimate Forms of Capitalism
"Your Sons and Daughters Are Beyond Your Command": The Crisis in Socialization
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 evolves in parallel with, and in response to, radical feminism in the US during this time.
Feminist theory.
Cultural studies.
Social history.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Sociology.
United States—History.
Feminism.
Cultural Studies.
Social History.
Crime and Society.
Gender Studies.
US History.