Graduation Year
2016
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Special Major
Reader 1
Zayn Kassam
Reader 2
Lara Deeb
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Abstract
This thesis seeks to explore the ways in which gender and identity are imagined in times of war especially in the cases of women who participate in armed struggle within the Middle East. I focus particularly on how US and UK media's framing of these women's lives and experiences distort the ways in which we understand conflict within the contemporary Middle East. Through the case studies of female militants or supports of militancy in Palestine and the Islamic State I seek to highlight women's stories and lived realities in an attempt to understand what drives them to use particular model's of agency.
Recommended Citation
Koranteng, Nana-Korantema A., "Women in the Machinery of War: Gender, Identity & Resistance Within Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflict" (2016). Pomona Senior Theses. 158.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/158
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