Mothers, Monsters, Whores
Subtitle: Women's Violence in Global Politics
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781842778661
Subjects: Armed conflict; Violence in Society; Women's studies; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; International Relations - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Case studies; Political violence; Violence in women
Description: This is a look at military women who engage in torture: the Chechen 'Black Widows'; Middle Eastern suicide bombers and the women who directed and participated in genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. This text analyses the biological, psychological and sexualized stereotypes through which these women are conventionally depicted.