Body and Terror:

Women’s Bodies as Victims andPerpetrators of Terror

Authors

  • Parvin Sultana

Keywords:

Body, Suicide Bombers, Victims, Ethnic Conflict, Terrorism

Abstract

 

Bodies are vulnerable because they are intrinsically linked to death. Bodies are social and they are embedded with meaning. They cannot be extracted from their specific contexts. The nation is also often equated with body politic. As a result individual bodies become the site of security/ insecurity depending on the social location of bodies. Within this discourse, this article tries to locate the bodies of women. It will look at the bodies of women as victims of terror as well as perpetrators of terror. It will try to understand if in these differentiated roles, women are able to break away from stereotypes or are still caught in heteronormative narratives.

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Author Biography

Parvin Sultana

Parvin Sultana is a doctoral candidate at Centre for Political Studies in JNU. Her interest areas include gender, religion, political economy, media etc. She has published a number of articles and editorials in newspapers, and chapters in edited books including Rethinking Gender andRight to Education: The Way Forward.

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Published

2021-10-27

How to Cite

Sultana, P. (2021). Body and Terror: : Women’s Bodies as Victims andPerpetrators of Terror. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 1(1), 158–170. Retrieved from http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/30