Mothers, monsters, whores : women's violence in global politics / Laura Sjoberg & Caron E. Gentry.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sjoberg, Laura, 1979-
Other Authors: Gentry, Caron E.
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : New York : Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:
Violence in women.
Violence in women > Case studies.
Political violence.
World politics.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:x, 276 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.