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Gender-based explosions : the nexus between Muslim masculinities, jihadist Islamism and terrorism / Maleeha Aslam.

Title
Gender-based explosions : the nexus between Muslim masculinities, jihadist Islamism and terrorism / Maleeha Aslam.
Author
Aslam, Maleeha
Publication
Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, 2012.

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Description
xviii, 316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Masculinity > Islamic countries
  • Masculinity > Islam
  • Masculinity > Pakistan
  • Muslim men > Islāmābād
  • Terrorism > Islam
  • Islam and politics
  • Jihad
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-304) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Framing the global chaos: an overview -- The global jihadist movement -- Terrorism and counterterrorism: an overview of current strategies -- Islam, masculinities and performance -- Gender theory -- Islamic masculinities -- Muslim masculinities -- Pakistani masculinities and vulnerable social groups in the age of terror: a pilot study of Muslim men in Islamabad, aged 18-40 -- Research setting: contextualizing the pilot study on Pakistani masculinities -- Self-image, social expectations and pressures -- Muslim masculinities in the age of terror -- Muslim masculinities, militant-jihadist Islamism and suicide terrorism -- Islamism, terrorism and "the vulnerable" in society -- Analysis of the pilot study.
ISBN
  • 9789280812084 (paperback)
  • 9280812084 (paperback)
LCCN
^^2011047938
OCLC
765485706
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library