Army of roses : inside the world of Palestinian women suicide bombers / Barbara Victor ; Foreword by Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Paris bureau chief and Middle East edior.
Material type: TextLondon : Robinson, 2003Description: 321 pages; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1841199370
- 23 956.94054 V. B. A.
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In this expose of the political and cultural forces now pressing Palestinian women into martyrdom, investigative journalist Victor identifies what she calls "a new level of cynicism" that has destroyed normal, everyday existence in the Middle East, along with the possibility for lasting peace. Tracing the roots of the women's resistance movement back to so-called personal initiative attacks and a brief period of empowerment in the 1980s before religious leaders clamped down, Victor shows how the current generation of Palestinian women has been courted and cajoled into committing these self-destructive and murderous acts.
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