As feminist and gender studies have demonstrated, sexual difference is one of the most important axes of normative social reproduction which is often aggresively reasserted in a conflict situation. By interrogating the relationship between women, war and violence, the essay meditates on the concept of abjection, on the abject images of women, torture and violence such as those emerged from the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib. How are violent women represented? And why do they create such a problem? Some answers to these question are thus discussed both by looking at the feminist debated and by analysing media represenations of violent women.
A Journey to the End of the Night : Abjection, Violence, Women / C. Demaria. - STAMPA. - (2006), pp. 259-273.
A Journey to the End of the Night : Abjection, Violence, Women
DEMARIA, CRISTINA
2006
Abstract
As feminist and gender studies have demonstrated, sexual difference is one of the most important axes of normative social reproduction which is often aggresively reasserted in a conflict situation. By interrogating the relationship between women, war and violence, the essay meditates on the concept of abjection, on the abject images of women, torture and violence such as those emerged from the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib. How are violent women represented? And why do they create such a problem? Some answers to these question are thus discussed both by looking at the feminist debated and by analysing media represenations of violent women.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.