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Becoming A Woman Of Isis, Zoe D. Fine Apr 2018

Becoming A Woman Of Isis, Zoe D. Fine

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this study, I examine how terrorism is produced and consumed in communication. Using discourse analysis, I investigate how terrorism is constituted in the accounts of four women described in online news reports as having joined, or almost joined the so-called Islamic State (IS): “Alex,” constructed as having been lonely and flirted with IS; “Khadija,” presented as a schoolteacher turned member of IS’s all-women’s brigade; Laura, described as a woman whose partner abandoned her, who met a man online, and who brought her son with her to join IS; and Tareena, referred to as a health worker who brought her …


’A Strange Sympathy’: The Rhetoric Of Emotion In The History Of The Nun; Or, The Fair Vow-Breaker, Elizabeth J. Mathews Apr 2013

’A Strange Sympathy’: The Rhetoric Of Emotion In The History Of The Nun; Or, The Fair Vow-Breaker, Elizabeth J. Mathews

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

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