Death In The Shape Of A Young Girl: Women's Political Violence In The Red Army Faction (Gender And Political Violence, 1)

In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. This publication questions the separation of political violence from feminist politics and offers a new understanding of left-wing female terrorists' actions as feminist practices that challenged existing gender ideologies. The author draws on archival sources, unpublished letters, and interviews with former activists to paint an interdisciplinary picture of West Germany's most notorious political group, the Red Army Faction (der Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF)).

• • Author: Patricia Melzer
• • Publisher: Nyu Press
• • Publication Date: Apr 24, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 352 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1479864072
• • ISBN-13: 9781479864072