A. Third 
Gender and the Political 
Deconstructing the Female Terrorist

Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural constructions of the female terrorist. The chapters argue that the development of the discourse on terrorism evolves in parallel with, and in response to, radical feminism in the US during this time.

Table of Content

Introduction 1. Conceptualizing Terrorism 2. Constructing the Terrorist: The Threat From Within 3. Feminist Terrorists and Terrorist Feminists: The Crosswiring of Feminism With Terrorism 4. Terrorist Time: Terrorism’s Disruption of Modernity 5. Conjuring the Apocalypse: Radical Feminism, Apocalyptic Temporality and the Society for Cutting Up Men 6. Abjecting Whiteness: ‘The Movement, ‘ Radical Feminism, Genocide 7. Nuclear Terrorists: Patricia Hearst and the (Feminist) Terrorist Family Postscript

About the author

Amanda Third is Senior Lecturer in Media and Visual Cultures in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts / Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.