WGS 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Female Suicide Bomber, Double Standard
28 Feb 2019
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Brides of Palestine
● Female suicide bomber
● Norms of war/violence
○ Men are fighters women are victims
● How did this notion begin?
○ Idea women are victims - brought into war as well
○ Could be used as a tactic?
● In modern war
○ More women in combat roles
○ Ex. whole battalion of women
■ Nationalism motivated the women to join armed resistance
○ Gendered model of war is becoming less relevant
■ Not totally true anymore
○ Double standard for women in combat
■ Women sexualized
● Ex. competition for Australias hottest cop
■ Even when women join resistance, break stereotypes they’re put
right back into it
● What about women being drafted?
○ Sure, but using basis of equality
■ Use equality as justification to give us “equal rights in death” but not
“equal rights for life”
○ Don’t like the idea of a draft at all
○ Also statistics that women in combat more likely to being raped
■ Forced into a situation isn’t ethical
○ Women get harsher consequences
■ Same crime - women dishonorably discharged and put in prison,
men faced little consequences
○ This question assumes we are okay with waging war
■ What if war is unjust?
■ Don’t be discriminatory in who you permit to serve
■ Should we be forced to participate in a system that has brought
numerous genocides?
■ What’s the point if we don’t agree with the military?
● How many of us would end up in prison?
○ What about the trans military ban?
■ If only two genders you have to accept everyone again, right?
● Terrorism or political violence
○ Depends on where you’re coming from
Document Summary
Idea women are victims - brought into war as well. Nationalism motivated the women to join armed resistance. Gendered model of war is becoming less relevant. Even when women join resistance, break stereotypes they"re put right back into it. Use equality as justification to give us equal rights in death but not. Don"t like the idea of a draft at all. Also statistics that women in combat more likely to being raped. Same crime - women dishonorably discharged and put in prison, men faced little consequences. This question assumes we are okay with waging war. Don"t be discriminatory in who you permit to serve. Terrorism doesn"t have to come from politics. Political violence is more like government vs. government or people against government. But under this, us is the biggest terrorist organization in the world. The people with power determines who the bad guys are. Political motive to shape a group into a terrorist group.
