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Bielby examines Michael Baumann’s post-terrorist memoir Wie alles anfing (How it all began), which achieved international notoriety in the 1970s after it was seized by police in a crackdown on freedom of speech as the Federal Republic of Germany struggled to contain its terrorist threat. The text is the first and most famous example of what now constitutes a sizeable corpus of German post-terrorist life writing. Bielby explores the text as a case study for a ‘critical feminist perpetrator studies.’ Embracing interdisciplinarity, she combines methodologies from area studies and criminology with a feminist theoretical framework. She brings an intersectional gendered approach to the study of male perpetration, problematising the idea of what counts as political violence and agency from a feminist perspective.
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Bielby, C. (2018). Scripting the Perpetrating Self: Masculinity, Class and Violence in German Post-terrorist Autobiography. In: Bielby, C., Stevenson Murer, J. (eds) Perpetrating Selves. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96785-1_5
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