Female terrorism and militancy
Subtitle: agency, utility, and organization
By: edited by Cindy D. Ness.
Contributors: Ness, Cindy D., 1959-
Series: Contemporary terrorism studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415773478
Subjects: Women terrorists; Political violence; Violence in women
Table of contents: title: In the name of the cause : women's work in secular and religious terrorism / Cindy D. Ness; title: Women fighting in jihad? / David Cook; title: Beyond the bombings : analyzing female suicide bombers / Debra Zedalis; title: (Gendered) war / Carolyn Nordstrom; title: The evolving participation of Muslim women in Palestine, Chechnya, and the global jihadi movement / Karla Cunningham; title: Black Widows and beyond : understanding the motivations and life trajectories of Chechen female terrorists / Anne Speckhard & Khapta Akhmedova; title: The Black Widows : Chechen women join the fight for independence and Allah / Anne Nivat; title: Palestinian female suicide bombers : virtuous heroines or damaged goods? / Yoram Schweitzer; title: Martyrs or murderers? Victims or victimizers? The voices of would be Palestinian female suicide bombers / Anat Berko & Edna Erez; title: Girls as "weapons of terror" in northern Uganda and Sierra Leonean rebel fighting forces / Susan McKay; title: From freedom birds to water buffaloes : women terrorists in Asia / Margaret Gonzalez-Perez; title: Women and organized racial terrorism in the United States / Kathleen M. Blee; title: The portrayal of female terrorists in the media : similar framing patterns in the news coverage of women in politics and in terrorism / Brigitte L. Nacos.