ROLAND BLEIKER Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, AustraliaCLAUDIA BRUNNER is based at the Center for Peace Research and Peace Education, University of Klagenfurt, Austria LORI CROWE Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science, York University, CanadaGABRIELA GONZALEZ VAILLANT Ph.D. graduate student at SUNY-Stony Brook, USA EMMA HUTCHISON Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, AustraliaJUTTA JOACHIM Associate Professor of Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover, GermanyMICHAEL KIMMEL Distinguished Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, USAFARSHAD MALEKAHMADI Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences, Naugatuck Valley Community College, Connecticut, USACERWYN MOORE Senior Lecturer in International Relations at POLSIS, University of Birmingham, UKTANYA NAROZHNA Assistant Professor of Global Politics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada SUNGJU PARK-KANG Guest Researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, SwedenELINA PENTTINEN Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Tampere, Finland and Professor of International Relations and European Studies at the University of Tallinn, EstoniaANDREA SCHNEIKER Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover, GermanyJUHI TYAGI Ph.D. graduate student at SUNY-Stony Brook, USALISA WHITE Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Lincoln, USA

'Gender, agency and political violence is a thought-provoking contribution to feminist debates around issues of political violence, agency/resistance and conflict resolution...The volume is an invaluable contribution to existing scholarship, providing both new empirical insights and novel methods for understanding the gendered nature of violence, both in its perpetration and subsequent (re)interpretations.' - Maria O'Reilly, King's College London, Peacebuilding

• Rethinking Gender, Agency and Political Violence; L.J.Shepherd PART I: VIOLENT SUBJECTS Masculinity, Militarism and Popular Culture: The Warrior Superhero in Hollywood; L.Crowe Masculinities, Pain and Power: Gendering Experiences of Truth Sharing in Northern Ireland; L.White (Re)Masculinizing Security? Gender and Private Military and Security Companies; J.Joachim & A.Schneiker The Gender of Resistance: A Case Study Approach to Thinking about Gender in Violent Resistance Movements; G.Gonzalez, M.Kimmel, F.Malekahmadi & J.Tyagi PART II: REASON/RATIONALITY Power and Gendered Rationality in Western Epistemic Constructions of Female Suicide Bombings; T.Narozhna Assassins, Virgins, Scholars: Epistemologies and Geopolitics in Scholarly Knowledge on Suicide Bombing; C.Brunner From Snipers to Suicide Attacks: Exploring the Representations and Realities of Conflict in the Northern Caucasus; C.Moore Gendered Agency in Contested Truths: The Case of Hyunhee Kim (KAL858); S.Park-Kang PART III: EMOTION/EMOTIONALITY Ungendering the Links between Emotions and Violence: Towards a Political Appreciation of Empathy and Compassion; E.Hutchison & R.Bleiker Confusion, Fear, Disgust: Emotional Communication in Representations of Female Agency in Political Violence; L.Åhäll Heartfelt Positivity as an Orthogonal Approach to Gender, Agency and Political Violence: Reading Stormheart; E.Penttinen