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Gender and the Political

Deconstructing the Female Terrorist

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Amanda Third
    Pages 1-8

  3. Conceptualizing Terrorism

    • Amanda Third
    Pages 9-26

  4. Constructing the Terrorist: The Threat from Within

    • Amanda Third
    Pages 27-52

  5. Feminist Terrorists and Terrorist Feminists: The Crosswiring of Feminism with Terrorism

    • Amanda Third
    Pages 53-69

  6. Terrorist Time: Terrorism’s Disruption of Modernity

    • Amanda Third
    Pages 71-90

  7. Conjuring the Apocalypse: Radical Feminism, Apocalyptic Temporality, and the Society for Cutting Up Men

    • Amanda Third
    Pages 91-118

  8. Abjecting Whiteness: “The Movement,” Radical Feminism, and Genocide

    • Amanda Third
    Pages 119-137

  9. Nuclear Terrorists: Patricia Hearst and the (Feminist) Terrorist Family

    • Amanda Third
    Pages 139-167

  10. Postscript

    • Amanda Third
    Pages 169-172

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 173-228
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About this book

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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"A fascinating exploration of the historical twinning of terrorism and feminism in the U.S. By redirecting our attention to these important discourses emerging in the 60's and 70s, this book provides a crucial corrective to counter post 9/11 anxieties that continually project the terrorist as somehow coming from elsewhere." - Jasbir K. Puar, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, USA

"Amanda Third's Gender and the Political convincingly argues that the modern concepts of terrorism and feminism are historically and conceptually interwoven. The book does this by reading terrorism studies against the grain while simultaneously positioning the concept of terrorism as a central trope of postmodern thought. These two discourses - the former increasingly foundational to, the latter highly critical of, the modern state and social order - are placed in fruitful conversation with one another, resulting in a deeply illuminating study of the contemporary political terrain in the United States." - Mehmet Dö?emeci, Assistant Professor of History, Bucknell University, USA

About the author

Amanda Third is Senior Lecturer in Media and Visual Cultures in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts / Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

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