[Review] Women, political violence and gendered representations

Alonso Soriano, Ana Lucia2022-12-081368-8790http://hdl.handle.net/1885/281654In early September 2016, the death of Asia Ramazan Antar, a 19-year-old female combatant from the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units, was widely reported in the media. Ironically, Asia became famous on social media for her beautiful face and sexualised representation of a combatant woman similar to that of Angelina Jolie in the film Lara Croft. She was nicknamed the ‘Kurdish Angelina Jolie’.application/pdfen-AU© 2017 The authors[Review] Women, political violence and gendered representations201710.1080/13688790.2016.13192572021-11-28