Emancipation by Arms?
On Women’s Political Violence
25 €
Presentation
In the wake of the socio-political protests of the late 1960s, Western democracies saw a wave of revolutionary violence by men and women who seized on it as a political tool. Far-left armed groups were characterized by remarkable female involvement and engagement.
Studying the political violence of women means focusing on a phenomenon that is almost exclusively male. Yet gender is a heuristic tool to apprehend the consequences of feminization for political violence and its place in the socio-political space. By combining social, political and gendered perspectives, this book proposes interdisciplinary readings of female armed struggle and revisits the value systems in which political violence and women’s violence are viewed.
Editors
Caroline Guibet Lafaye is a research supervisor at the Émile Durkheim Centre of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University of Bordeaux. She is a qualified teacher with a philosophy doctorate from Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research in sociology and political philosophy centres on the analysis of representations and beliefs relating to social justice and radicalization processes. She is currently coordinating a research programme on armed struggle in Europe and the Middle East.
Alexandra Frénod is an analytical engineer at the CNRS (GEMASS, Université Paris Sorbonne). She contributes to producing and analysing data from research projects notably concerning perceived inequalities and the sense of justice, on the one hand, and political and religious radicalization, on the other.
222 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 01/09/2019
ISBN: 9782858313273