Women, Gender, and Terrorism

Name: Women, Gender, and Terrorism
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ISBN: 9780820340388

ISBN-10: 0820340383

ISBN-13: 9780820340388

Edition: 2011

Authors: Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry

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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 12/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Laura Sjoberg is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida. She is the editor or author of numerous books includingGender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq: A Feminist Reformulation of Just War Theory. Caron E. Gentry is a lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. Together they coauthoredMothers, Monsters, Whores: Womenrsquo;s Violence in Global Politics.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Women, Gender, and Terrorism




Historical Perspectives on Women and Terrorism


The Mujahidaat: Tracing the EarlyFemale Warriors of Islam



The Gendering of Women's Terrorism




Women, Terrorism, and Contemporary Conflicts


Zombies versus Black Widows: Women as Propaganda in the Chechen Conflict



Aatish-e-Chinar: In Kashmir, Where Women Keep Resistance Aliv



The Committed Revolutionary: Reflections on a Conversation with Leila Khaled



"In the war front we never think that we are women": Women, Gender, and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam




Women, Gender, and al-Qaeda


Al-Qaeda's Use of Female Suicide Bombers in Iraq: A Case Study



The Neo-Orientalist Narratives of Women's Involvement in al-Qaeda



Blinded by the Explosion? Security and Resistance in Muslim Women's Suicide Terrorism



Conclusion: The Study of Women, Gender, and Terrorism



Contributors


Index