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Women Suicide Bombers
Book • 2011
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Julie Rajan's 'Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence' interrogates how societies construct stories about women who commit suicide attacks, focusing on themes of agency, victimhood, and political purpose.
Drawing on case studies and testimonial materials, Rajan unpacks how media, communities, and organisations interpret and represent female bombers.
The book highlights tensions between individual motivations and collective political aims, and how gendered expectations shape interpretations.
It situates female suicide bombers within broader debates on terrorism, gender, and martyrdom, offering critical perspectives on common assumptions.
Rajan's work contributes to scholarship seeking to depathologize or better understand women’s political violence through empirical and narrative analysis.
Julie Rajan's 'Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence' interrogates how societies construct stories about women who commit suicide attacks, focusing on themes of agency, victimhood, and political purpose.
Drawing on case studies and testimonial materials, Rajan unpacks how media, communities, and organisations interpret and represent female bombers.
The book highlights tensions between individual motivations and collective political aims, and how gendered expectations shape interpretations.
It situates female suicide bombers within broader debates on terrorism, gender, and martyrdom, offering critical perspectives on common assumptions.
Rajan's work contributes to scholarship seeking to depathologize or better understand women’s political violence through empirical and narrative analysis.
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