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Mothers, monsters, whores : women's violence in global politics

Authors:Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry

Summary: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

Print Book, English, 2007

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Publisher: Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2007

Genre:Case studies

Physical Description:x, 276 pages ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9781842778661, 9781842778654, 1842778668, 184277865X

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:156784787

Subjects:

Criminelles de guerre Études de cas

Études de cas

Femmes dans les médias Études de cas

Femmes militaires Couverture de presse Études de cas

Femmes tortionnaires Couverture de presse Études de cas

Political violence

Politique mondiale

Politique mondiale 21e siècle

Rôle selon le sexe dans les médias Études de cas

Sex role in mass media

Sex role in mass media Case studies

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media Case studies

Stéréotypes dans les médias Études de cas

Torture Case studies

Torture Press coverage Case studies

Violence chez la femme

Violence chez la femme Couverture de presse Études de cas

Violence chez la femme Études de cas

Violence in women

Violence in women Case studies

Violence in women Press coverage Case studies

Violence politique

Women in mass media

Women in mass media Case studies

Women soldiers Press coverage Case studies

Women torturers Press coverage Case studies

Women war criminals

Women war criminals Case studies

World politics 21st century

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Mothers, monsters, whores.

Sjoberg, Laura, 1979-

Contents:

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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