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Discursive and political deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian women suicide bombers/martyrs
Abstract
This paper focuses on representations by and deployments of the four Palestinian women
who during the first four months of 2002 killed themselves in organized attacks against
Israeli military personnel or civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or
Israel. The paper addresses the manner in which these militant women produced and
situated themselves as gendered-political subjects, and argues that their self-representations
and acts were deployed by individuals and groups in the region to reflect and articulate
other gendered-political subjectivities that at times undermined or rearticulated
patriarchal religio-nationalist understandings of gender and women in relation to
corporeality, authenticity, and community. The data analysed include photographs,
narrative representations in television and newspaper media, the messages the women
left behind, and secondary sources. © 2005 Feminist Review.
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Journal articleSubject
Social SciencesWomen's Studies
Palestine
women
suicide bombers
martyrdom
masculinity
Al-Aqsa intifada
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19494Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400257Publication Info
Hasso, FS (2005). Discursive and political deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian women suicide bombers/martyrs.
Feminist Review, 81(81). pp. 23-51. 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400257. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19494.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Frances S. Hasso
Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
I am a Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke
University with secondary appointments in the Department of History and Department
of Sociology. I taught in and directed the International Comparative Studies Program
at Duke from 2010-2015 and was a member of the Oberlin College faculty from 2000-2010.
I am Editor Emerita (2015-2018) of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

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