ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the exclusivist conception of the world order carefully construed and sustained in Western academic works on female suicide bombings. It argues that in the West the reality of female suicide bombings is produced through discursive representational structures that monoculturally and monologically assert superiority and exceptionality of the West, reiterate hierarchical ordering of the world, and effectively rekindle the image of clashing civilizations. The chapter explores the state of the art in the prevalent academic works on female suicide bombings with special emphasis on key themes and objectives within this literature. It turns to a background story of the world order told by the mainstream Western scholars in their works on female suicide bombers and reveals the principal pillars sustaining a particular construction of world order. The majority of Western academic works on female suicide bombings do not engage at great length in the discussion of their analytical, epistemological and normative assumptions.
