The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism

by Robin Morgan

Morgan examines terrorism from a feminist perspective and considers the reasons why most terrorists are male and how terrorism and sexuality or, indeed sexual charisma, are connected. She is the author of ten books, including "Sisterhood is Powerful, Sisterhood is Global".

Genres: Nonfiction

395 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan published 21 books, including the now-classic anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful , Sisterhood Is Global , and Sisterhood Is Forever . A leader in contemporary US feminism, she also played an influential role internationally in the women’s movement for more than 25 years.

Morgan traveled — as organizer, lecturer, and journalist — across North America and Europe and to Australia, Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, the Philippines, and South Africa. She twice (1986 and 1989) spent months in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza, reporting on the conditions of women.

Her books include the novels Dry Your Smile and The Mer-Child A Legend for Children and Other Adults ; nonfiction Going Too Far , The Word of a Woman , and The Anatomy of Freedom . Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Sanskrit.

As founder and president of The Sisterhood Is Global Institute and co-founder and board member of The Women’s Media Center, she co-founded and served on the boards of many women’s organizations in the US and abroad. In 1990, as editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine, she relaunched the magazine as an international, award-winning, ad-free bimonthly, resigning in late 1993 to become consulting global editor. She was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize for poetry and numerous other honors.

Reviews

[Timothy McNulty]

I ordered this book without doing any research in its subject matter mainly going on title alone. Once it arrives I was disappointed that it wasn't what I had hoped but ever the one to see a project through I took on the task of reading this book. It has taken me four months and many nightmares but at last I have finished it. I read this book with as much of an open mind as a male has I believe. My greatest takeaway after reading this book is the terrible brutality shown women. It was very hard to read . It reminded me of the feeling that I had when reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. It really amazes me how cruel males can be. Somethings listed within the pages of this book will be etched into my soul forever. The last chapter was my favorite and I believe most who have read this work in its entity will agree.