Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction

TitleDeath in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsMelzer, Patricia
Number of Pages339
PublisherNew York University Press
CityNew York
Abstract

In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. Half of the terrorists declaring war on the West German state were women who understood their violent political actions to be part of their liberation from restrictive gender norms. As women participating in a brand of systematic violence usually associated with masculinity, they presented a cultural paradox, and their political decisions were viewed as gender transgressions by the state, the public, and even the burgeoning women’s movement, which considered violence as patriarchal and unfeminist. This volume questions this separation of political violence from feminist politics and offers a new understanding of left-wing female terrorists’ actions as feminist practices that challenged existing gender ideologies. 

URLhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15r405n
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