Emancipation through arms?
On political violence against women
25 €
Presentation
In the wake of the socio-political protest of the late 1960s, Western democracies experienced a wave of revolutionary violence, which men and women seized as a political tool. Far-left armed groups were characterized by the remarkable involvement and commitment of women. The climate of the 1970s, situations of resistance and liberation struggles are conducive to the renegotiation of masculine and feminine roles. Women are also at the heart of the national liberation project of certain Turkish and Kurdish left-wing organizations, even today, as they were in Latin America or South Asia.
Interrogating women's political violence amounts to focusing on a phenomenon almost exclusively declined in the masculine. Yet gender provides a heuristic tool for grasping what feminization does to political violence and its inscription in socio-political space. By crossing social, political and gendered dimensions, the collection S'émanciper par les armes? proposes interdisciplinary readings of armed struggle in the feminine and revisits the value systems in which political violence and women's violence are caught.
Directresses
Caroline Guibet Lafaye is Director of Research at the CNRS (Centre Émile Durkheim, CNRS, University of Bordeaux). An Agrégée and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, she devotes her research in sociology and political philosophy to the analysis of representations and beliefs relating to social justice and radicalization processes. She currently coordinates a research program on armed struggles in Europe and the Middle East.
Alexandra Frénod is a research engineer at CNRS (GEMASS, Paris Sorbonne, CNRS). She is involved in the production and data analysis of research projects focusing in particular on the perception of inequalities and the sense of justice on the one hand, and on the processes of political and religious radicalization on the other.
222 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 01/09/2019
ISBN: 9782858313273