Death in the Shape of a Young Girl : Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction / / Patricia Melzer.

• Author: Melzer, Patricia, 1970-
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : New York University Press,, 2015.; Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2021; ©2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Gender and political violence series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.)
• Notes: "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.

In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. In the years to come, the bombings, shootings, kidnappings and bank robberies of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Movement 2nd June dominated newspaper headlines and pol...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: "An excess of women's emancipation" : gender, political violence, and feminist politics
• The other half of the sky : revolutionary violence, the RAF, and the autonomous women's movement
• "Between a rock and a hard place" : the "betrayal" of motherhood among the women of the RAF and Movement 2nd June
• "Terrorist girls" and "wild furies" : feminist responses to media representations of women terrorists during the "German Autumn" of 1977
• The gendered politics of starving : (state) power and the body as locus of political subjectivities in the RAF hunger strikes
• "We women are the better half of humanity anyway" : revolutionary politics, feminism, and memory in the writings of female terrorists
• Conclusion: "Can political violence be feminist?"