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Islam, veiling & political agency: the visual performativity of Palestinian female suicide bombers in broadcast news media
Atlantic Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-03-28 , DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.1903467
Matthew D. Kirk 1
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ABSTRACT

As suicide bombers during the Second Intifada of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian females reflected a sustained involvement in political activism dating back to the early-20th century. However, as suicide bombers, Palestinian females gained considerable notoriety in Western media discourse because of their gendered participation. This not only challenges the use of their female bodies for destructive, rather than reproductive, purposes but also long-held orientalist discourse propagating the alleged-oppression of non-Western females in historic and contemporary Western literature, including via the practice of veiling. Despite martyrdom videos contextually locating these females within political violence, their veiled appearance challenged orientalist discourse concerning their gendered participatory agency. Examining U.K. and U.S. broadcast news media, this article seeks to assess the presence of traditionally orientalist frameworks in Palestinian female suicide bombers’ coverage and whether or not these contribute toward a de-legitimization of their political agency, via discourse surrounding representations of their allegedly oppressed female bodies.



中文翻译:

伊斯兰教、面纱与政治机构:巴勒斯坦女性自杀式炸弹袭击者在广播新闻媒体中的视觉表演

摘要

作为巴以冲突第二次起义期间的自杀式炸弹袭击者,巴勒斯坦女性反映了可追溯到 20 世纪初的政治活动的持续参与。然而,作为自杀式炸弹袭击者,巴勒斯坦女性因其性别参与而在西方媒体话语中声名狼藉。这不仅挑战了将她们的女性身体用于破坏性而非生殖目的,而且挑战了长期存在的东方主义话语,在历史和当代西方文学中宣传所谓的对非西方女性的压迫,包括通过戴面纱的做法。尽管殉道视频在上下文中将这些女性定位在政治暴力中,但她们含蓄的外表挑战了东方主义者关于她们的性别参与机构的话语。检查英国和美国

更新日期:2021-03-28
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