[csaa-forum] Gender and the Political Book Launch

[Institute for Culture and Society]

The UWS Institute for Culture and Society presents a book launch for Associate Professor Amanda Third's new book Gender and the Political: Deconstructing the Female Terrorist.

When: Friday 17 April, 6pm for a 6.30pm start
Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road Glebe
RSVP: events at gleebooks.com.au
Emcee: Dr Anthea Taylor, University of Sydney
Launched by: Associate Professor Natalya Lusty, University of Sydney

Book description:
The female terrorist circulates within contemporary Western culture as an object of fascination and heightened concern. Gender and the Political analyses cultural constructions of the female terrorist, arguing that she operates as a limit case of both feminine and feminist agency. Drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book demonstrates that the development of the discourse on terrorism evolves in parallel with, and in response to, radical feminism in the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Situated at the borderlines between sexuality, threat and abjection, Amanda Third argues that the figure of the female terrorist compels a re-examination of the project of radical politics and the limits of modernity.

About the author:
Associate Professor Amanda Third is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, and Research Program Leader at the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre.

For further information see the ICS website: http://www.uws.edu.au/ics/events/gender_and_the_political_book_launch
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