Body and Terror: Women's Bodies as Victims and Perpetrators of Terror

Sultana examines the female body as a dialogic site combining terrorist victimization with ethical resistance. Drawing on Foucault's take on the institutionalized docile bodies, the article explores the protesting female body, the ideological use of nudity therein, the explosive masochistic body of the suicide bomber and complicates the representation of the female body under regimes like heteronormativity and so on. He delves into the profound affect of shame and its impact in this act of resistance which speaks to people's broadening out of the literary as a perceptual field alongside the experience of terror.