TY - JOUR PY - 2008// TI - Women: The Secret Weapon of Modern Warfare? JO - Hypatia A1 - Oliver, Kelly SP - 1 EP - 16 VL - 23 IS - 2 N2 - The images from wars in the Middle East that haunt us are those of young women killing and torturing. Their media circulated stories share a sense of shock. They have both galvanized and confounded debates over feminism and women's equality. And, as Oliver argues in this essay, they share, perhaps subliminally, the problematic notion of women as both offensive and defensive weapons of war, a notion that is symptomatic of fears of women's “mysterious” powers.
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