Perpetrating Selves

Clare Bielby is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York. She is the author of Violent Women in Print: Representations in the West German Print Media of the 1960s and 1970s (Camden House, 2012) and co-editor (with Anna Richards) of Women and Death 3: Women's Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500 (Camden House, 2010). Jeffrey Stevenson Murer is Senior Lecturer on Collective Violence in the School of International Relations and Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews. His articles have appeared, among elsewhere, in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society; Terrorism and Political Violence; and the Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, where he is an Associate Editor.

1. Perpetrating Selves: An Introduction; Clare Bielby and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer.- PART ONE: Enactments and Bodily Performances.- 2. Leading Men a Merry Dance?: Girls as Sex Crime Perpetrators in Contemporary Pop Culture and Media; Melissa Dearey.- 3. Embodying a Perpetrator: Myths, Monsters and Magic; Katarina H. S. Birkedal.- 4. The Making of a Dangerous Individual: Performing the Perpetrating Self -- An Interview with Steve Pratt; Clare Bielby and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer.- PART TWO: Narration and Textual Performances.- 5. Scripting the Perpetrating Self: Masculinity, Class and Violence in German Post-terrorist Autobiography; Clare Bielby.- 6. Innocent Superspy: Contradictory Narratives as Exculpation in a Woman Apartheid Perpetrator Story; Robyn Bloch.- 7. 'It's My Destiny': Narrating Prison Violence and Masculinity in the Shaun Attwood Trilogy; Josephine Metcalf.- 8. Intimate Enemies: Representations of Perpetrators in Literary Responses to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda; Nicki Hitchcott.- 9. 'By Any Means Necessary': Interviews and Narrative Analysis with Torturers - A Conversation with Dr. John Tsukayama; Clare Bielby and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer.- PART THREE: Perpetration in the Museum.- 10. Selective Empathy in the Re-designed Imperial War Museum London: Heroes and Perpetrators; Gabriel Koureas.- 11. Identifying with Mass Murderers? Representing Male Perpetrators in Museum Exhibitions of the Holocaust; Birga Meyer.- 12. Managing Perpetrator Affect: The Female Guard Exhibition at Ravensbrück; Susanne Luhmann.- 13. Curating Violence: Display and Representation -- An Interview with Jonathan Ferguson and Lisa Traynor (Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds); Clare Bielby and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer.