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Publication details [#52659]
Sjoberg, Laura and Caron E. Gentry. 2008. Reduced to Bad Sex: Narratives of Violent Women from the Bible to the War on Terror. International Relations 22 (1) : 5–23.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Annotation
This paper addresses two types of violent women (labelled here 'whore') narratives : stories on violent women's erotomania and sexual dysfunctioning. Although the whore narrative has been consistently used historically and cross-culturally, this paper distinguishes a culture-based dimension that is unique to the war on terror and affects research on gender in global politics.