Women in modern terrorism from liberation wars to global Jihad and the Islamic State
Recent events, including the rise of the Islamic State and its overt recruitment of Western women, have once again brought the issue of women participating in terrorist organizations to the forefront. Yet much remains to be understood about why women join terrorist organizations and why groups choos...
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Lanham
Rowman & Littlefield
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: women in modern terrorism
- Organizational decision making
- Gender and the radicalization process(es)
- Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist groups
- Women in ethno-nationalist conflict
- Women in global Jihad: from Al Qaeda to Chechnya
- Evolving global jihad: Boko Haram and Al Shabaab
- Women's role in the conflict in Iraq and Syria
- Conclusion: trends in female terrorism