Women in Terrorism
Case of the LTTE
(Sprache: Englisch)
Women in Terrorism examines the growing number of women actively engaged in terrorist activity and considers the significance of this for theorising gender, conflict and social politics. Toward that end, the book studies Tamil women combatants of the...
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Women in Terrorism examines the growing number of women actively engaged in terrorist activity and considers the significance of this for theorising gender, conflict and social politics. Toward that end, the book studies Tamil women combatants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an armed resistance group identified as one of the deadliest terrorist groups globally. Drawing on narrative life histories, the book canvasses three decades of ethno-nationalist war in Sri Lanka contributing to a major social change for Tamil women in Jaffna. It identifies the LTTE as providing an 'alternative' familial kinship founded upon friendship, which transcends caste and religion. The book reveals that the LTTE combatant woman's paradoxical equality may differ from Western feminist notions of emancipation, but represents a profound change within its own patriarchal society. This original book presents the argument that engagement in armed conflict has transformed combatant women's understanding of themselves into female slayers of injustice and protectors of the Tamil nation, with a (re)constructed gender identity and sense of empowerment.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Women in Terrorism “
Notes on the Language Conventions Entering a Tiger's Lair The Lions and The Tigers: A Historical Overview of the Sri Lankan Conflict and the Role of Women Displacement and Contributing Factors to Joining the LTTE The Tiger Family: Kin Identity amongst Women Combatants of the LTTE Death and the Suicide Bomber Ah-lu-mai: Equality and Empowerment of the New Woman, Puthumai Pen Ending a Journey: Final ReflectionsBibliographyIndex
Autoren-Porträt von Tamara Herath
Tamara Herath is a Criminal Justice Manager for a Policing organization in Central London, UK. She has had a long career in criminal justice with many years of working in the Crown Prosecution Service. She was awarded the prestigious Bramshill Fellowship to facilitate the research that forms the basis of the book.Dr Herath obtained a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London. Her current publications include articles titled, In My Honour: Contextualising Rape in Suicide Bombing (2006), and Black Widows, Army of Roses, and Armed Virgins: An Overview of Women's Involvement in Suicide Bombings (2006). She is in the process of writing a co-edited book with Dr Sabine Grenz from Humboldt Universität, Berlin, with a working title of Gender, Security and War.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tamara Herath
- 256 Seiten, Maße: 14,5 x 22,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Sage,
- ISBN-10: 8132106954
- ISBN-13: 9788132106951
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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