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

Name: Mothers, Monsters, Whores Women's Violence in Global Politics
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ISBN: 9781842778661

ISBN-10: 1842778668

ISBN-13: 9781842778661

Edition: 2007

Authors: Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry

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This book provides an empirical study of women's violence in global politics.nbsp;The book looks at military women who engage in torture; the Chechennbsp; 'Black Widows '; Middle Eastern suicide bombers; and the women who directed and participated in genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. Sjoberg & Gentry analyze the biological, psychological and sexualized stereotypes through which these women are conventionally depicted, arguing that these are rooted in assumptions about what is "appropriate" female behavior.What these stereotypes have in common is that they all perceive women as having no agency in any sphere of life.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 12/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Laura Sjoberg is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida. She is the editor or author of numerous books includingGender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq: A Feminist Reformulation of Just War Theory. Caron E. Gentry is a lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. Together they coauthoredMothers, Monsters, Whores: Womenrsquo;s Violence in Global Politics.



New Foreword



Preface to the English Edition


Introduction



The Mutliated Half


The Question that No One Would Answer


Sexual Agression Against the Female Child


The Grandfather with Bad Manners


The Injustice of Justice


The Very Fine Membrane Called 'Honour'


Circumcision of Girls


Obscurantism and Contradiction


The Illegitimate Child and the Prostitute


Abortion and Fertility


Distorted Notions about Femininity, Beauty and Love



Women in History


The Thirteenth Rib of Adam


Man the God, Woman the Sinful


Woman at the Time of the Pharaohs


Liberty to the Slave, But Not for the Woman



The Arab Woman


The Role of Women in Arab History


Love and Sex in the Life of the Arabs


The Heroine in Arab Literature



Breaking Through


Arab Pioneers of Women's Liberation


Work and Women


Marriage and Divorce


An Afterword