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Book SynopsisGender is not a 'security issue', but it tells us a lot about how, why and when certain subjects are written as security concerns. Thirteen case studies on violent subjects, reason, and emotion demonstrate different ways in which we understand political violence, security, resistance, power, and agency, and how we make sense of gender.
Trade Review'Gender, agency and political violence is a thought-provoking contribution to feminist debates around issues of political violence, agency/resistance and conflict resolution...The volume is an invaluable contribution to existing scholarship, providing both new
empirical insights and novel methods for understanding the gendered nature of violence, both in its perpetration and subsequent (re)interpretations.' - Maria O'Reilly, King's College London, Peacebuilding
Table of ContentsRethinking Gender, Agency and Political Violence; L.J.Shepherd PART I: VIOLENT SUBJECTS Masculinity, Militarism and Popular Culture: The Warrior Superhero in Hollywood; L.Crowe Masculinities, Pain and Power: Gendering Experiences of Truth Sharing in Northern Ireland; L.White (Re)Masculinizing Security? Gender and Private Military and Security Companies; J.Joachim & A.Schneiker The Gender of Resistance: A Case Study Approach to Thinking about Gender in Violent Resistance Movements; G.Gonzalez, M.Kimmel, F.Malekahmadi & J.Tyagi PART II: REASON/RATIONALITY Power and Gendered Rationality in Western Epistemic Constructions of Female Suicide Bombings; T.Narozhna Assassins, Virgins, Scholars: Epistemologies and Geopolitics in Scholarly Knowledge on Suicide Bombing; C.Brunner From Snipers to Suicide Attacks: Exploring the Representations and Realities of Conflict in the Northern Caucasus; C.Moore Gendered Agency in Contested Truths: The Case of Hyunhee Kim (KAL858); S.Park-Kang PART III: EMOTION/EMOTIONALITY Ungendering the Links between Emotions and Violence: Towards a Political Appreciation of Empathy and Compassion; E.Hutchison & R.Bleiker Confusion, Fear, Disgust: Emotional Communication in Representations of Female Agency in Political Violence; L.Åhäll Heartfelt Positivity as an Orthogonal Approach to Gender, Agency and Political Violence: Reading Stormheart; E.Penttinen
