Research Catalog

Title

Terrorist transgressions : gender and the visual culture of the terrorist / edited by Sue Malvern and Gabriel Koureas.

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Malvern, Sue, 1951-
• Koureas, Gabriel.

Description

xii, 228 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Terrorism has a variety of contexts, histories and forms which have all been the focus of intense scrutiny in recent years, whilst cultural representations of the terrorist have received much less attention, which is odd when we consider that terrorism by its very nature is spectacle.

Series Statement

International Library of Cultural Studies ; 37

Uniform Title

International library of cultural studies ; 37.

Subject

• Terrorism
• Women terrorists

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Image terror / Charlotte Klonk -- Femininity, feminism and the terrorist / Sue Malvern -- Gender and the terrorist in historiography / Sylvia Schraut -- Upheaval of daughters and sons : oeidpal rivalries and the Red Army Faction historiography / Dominique Grisard -- Artist's page : Xenofon Kavvadias -- Artist's page : Carolina Caycedo -- The gendered insurgent and the colonial state of exception / Stephen Morton -- Competing masculinities in the museum space : terrorists, machines and mangled metal / Gabriel Koureas -- Dressed to kill : the sartorial code of Anders Behring Breivik / Andreas Behnke -- Masculinites and "the terrorist" in conflict transformation : representation, identity and reconciliation in post-conflict Northern Ireland / Graham Dawson -- Terrorism as sexual envy : adversarial masculinities in two fictions of ticking bomb torture / Alex Adams -- Gangsters, thugs, savages, terrorists? Representations of "the Enemy" in Britain's small wars / Aaron Edwards.

Call Number

JFD 16-4987

ISBN

• 1780767013
• 9781780767017

OCLC

868968546

Title

Terrorist transgressions : gender and the visual culture of the terrorist / edited by Sue Malvern and Gabriel Koureas.

Imprint

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

International Library of Cultural Studies ; 37

International library of cultural studies ; 37.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: U OF READING. PAPERS BASED ON WORKSHOPS. CULT REPRESENTATIONS TESTING SOC. & GENDER NORMS. W/ILL

Added Author

Malvern, Sue, 1951-

Koureas, Gabriel.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-4987