Women, gender, and terrorism
By: edited by Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry
Series: Studies in security and international affairs
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780820335834; 9780820340388
Subjects: Political violence; Violence in women; Global politics; Case studies
Description: In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women's participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women's relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Women, gender, and terrorism / Laura Sjoberg, Grace D. Cooke, and Stacey Reiter Neal; title: The Mujahidaat : tracing the early female warriors of Islam / Farhana Qazi; title: The gendering of women's terrorism / Caron E. Gentry and Laura Sjoberg; title: Zombies versus black widows : women as propaganda in the Chechen conflict / Alisa Stack-O'Connor; title: Aatish-e-Chinar : in Kashmir, where women keep resistance alive / Swati Parashar; title: The committed revolutionary : reflections on a conversation with Leila Khaled / Caron E. Gentry; title: "In the war front we never think we are women" : women, gender, and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Elam / Miranda Alison; title: Al-Qaeda's use of female suicide bombers in Iraq : a case study / Jennie Stone and Katherine Pattillo; title: The neo-orientalist narratives of women's involvement in al-qaeda / Caron E. Gentry; title: Blinded by the explosion? security and resistance in Muslim women's suicide terrorism / Katherine E. Brown; title: Conclusion. The study of women, gender, and terrorism / Laura Sjoberg.