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Terrorism is a highly gendered phenomenon, producing the figure of the female terrorist that circulates within contemporary Western culture as an object of fascination and heightened concern. This book analyses how the discourses about terrorism and those of femininity are overlaid.2
Experience has shown that woman as terrorist must be dealt with after the fashion of the Gorgon if those responding would survive.
—H. H. A. Cooper1
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© 2014 Amanda Third
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Third, A. (2014). Introduction. In: Gender and the Political. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402769_1
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