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Gender and the Political
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The female terrorist circulates within contemporary Western culture as an object of fascination and heightened concern. Gender and the Political analyses cultural constructions of the female terrorist, arguing that she operates as a limit case of both feminine and feminist agency. Drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book demonstrates that the development of the discourse on terrorism evolves in parallel with, and in response to, radical feminism in the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Within the US cultural imaginary, the dual threats of (radical) feminism and terrorism are 'crosswired' upon the site of the female terrorist. The female terrorist is thus a figure that marks both the gendering of terrorism and of feminist political agency; she betrays the gendering of the political. Situated at the borderlines between sexuality, threat and abjection, the figure of the female terrorist compels a reexamination of the project of radical politics and the limits of modernity.
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