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Synopsis
Morgan examines terrorism from a feminist perspective and considers the reasons why most terrorists are male and how terrorism and sexuality or, indeed sexual charisma, are connected. She is the author of ten books, including "Sisterhood is Powerful, Sisterhood is Global".
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About the Author
Robin Morgan is the author of 17 books, including The Anatomy of Freedom, The Mer-Child: A New Legend for Children and Other Adults, A Hot January: Poems and Saturday's Child: A Memoir. A leader of the modern women's movement, she has been a political theorist and activist for three decades.
From Publishers Weekly
Despite its overlay of rhetoric, Morgan's challenging feminist diatribe brings a startling perspective to terrorism, which she sees as arising out of patriarchal societies' emphasis on power, control, domination and violence. In her definition, left-wing urban guerrillas, CIA dirty tricks, the Contras, white supremacist groups, nation a list resistance movements and the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima are all terrorist acts. She traces the seeds of terrorism to the mythic herowarrior, god-king, liberatorwho glorifies vengeance. Moving into modern times, Morgan ( Sisterhood Is Global , etc.) detects a sexual component in man's penchant for violent means, and she draws on works by Henry James, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing and Marge Piercy for support. On a more personal note, she analyzes "token terrorist" women and considers herself to have been one in the late '60s. She also interviews women in Palestinian refugee camps and includes a 1978 prison talk with Patti Hearst. Morgan ends by calling for a politics of eros, of fierce tenderness, connectivity and caring.
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- PublisherArrow (A Division of Random House Group)
- ISBN 10 0749303107
- ISBN 13 9780749303105
- BindingPaperback
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