Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores

Caron E. Gentry is a lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She is author of Offering Hospitality: Questioning Christian Approaches to War (2013) and the co-editor of Women, Gender and Terrorism (with Laura Sjoberg, 2011) and The Future of War: New Critical Essays (with Amy Eckert, 2014). Laura Sjoberg is associate professor of political science at the University of Florida. She is author of Gender, War and Conflict (2014), Gendering Global Conflict: Towards a Feminist Theory of War (2013), Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics (with Caron Gentry, 2007) and Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq (2006).

A nuanced and thought-provoking feminist contribution.

• 1. Introduction: A Woman Did That?2. Seeing Gender in Theories of People's Political Violence3. Seeing Women's Extralegal Violence4. Saving, Supporting and Supplicating: The Mother Narrative5. Femininity Gone Awry: The Monster Narrative6. Sex/Violence: The Whore Narrative7. Conclusion: Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores