Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism - Paperback

by Caron Gentry (Author)

Disordered Violence looks at how gender, race and heteronormative expectations of public life shape Western understandings of terrorism as irrational, immoral and illegitimate. Caron Gentry examines the profiles of 8 well-known terrorist actors and looks at the gendered, racial, and sexualised assumptions in how their stories are told.

Author Biography

Caron Gentry is Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. Dr Gentry has previously authored and edited several books as well as publishing articles in journals including International Relations, Millennium, International Feminist Journal of Politics and Critical Studies on Terrorism among others. She is Chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association.