Women, Gender, and Terrorism (Studies in Security and International Affairs)

269 Pages·2011·1.14 MB·English

by  Laura Sjoberg

Women, Gender, and Terrorism
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SerieS editorS josef joffe
Hoover Institution, Institute
gary k. bertsch
for International Studies,
University Professor of Public and
Stanford University
International Affairs and Director of
the Center for International Trade lawrence j. korb
and Security, University of Georgia Center for American Progress
howard j. wiarda william j. long
Dean Rusk Professor of International Sam Nunn School of
Relations and Head of the International Affairs, Georgia
Department of International Affairs, Institute of Technology
University of Georgia
jessica tuchman mathews
Carnegie Endowment for
SerieS AdviSory BoArd International Peace
pauline h. baker scott d. sagan
The Fund for Peace Center for International Security and
Cooperation, Stanford University
eliot cohen
Paul H. Nitze School of lawrence scheinman
Advanced International Studies, Monterey Institute of International
Johns Hopkins University Studies, cns-wdc
eric einhorn david shambaugh
Center for Public Policy and The Elliott School of
Administration, University International Affairs, George
of Massachusetts, Amherst Washington University
john j. hamre jessica stern
The Center for Strategic and John F. Kennedy School of
International Studies Government, Harvard University
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Women,
Gender, and
Terrorism
Edited by
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laura sjoberg and caron e gentry
The University of Georgia Press
Athens & London
Miranda Alison’s essay “‘In the war front we never think that we
are women’: Women, Gender, and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of
Eelam” is derived from Women and Political Violence, by Miranda
Helen Alison, © 2009 Routledge. Reproduced by permission of
Taylor and Francis Books, U.K.
© 2011 by the University of Georgia Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Women, gender, and terrorism / edited by Laura Sjoberg and
Caron E. Gentry.
p. cm. — (Studies in security and international affairs)
Includes index.
isbn 978-0-8203-3583-4 (cloth : alk. paper) —
isbn 978-0-8203-4038-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Violence in women. 2. Violence in women—Case studies.
3. Political violence. 4. Global politics. I. Sjoberg, Laura, 1979–
II. Gentry, Caron E.
hq1233.w593 2011
303.6’25082—dc23 2011016411
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
To (and for) our colleagues, cohorts, and friends
without whom our careers would not be possible
and our lives would be less complete
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Contents
Foreword xi
Russell D. Howard
Acknowledgments xiii
introduction. Women, Gender, and terrorism 1
Laura Sjoberg, Grace D. Cooke, and Stacy Reiter Neal
part one. Historical Perspectives on Women and terrorism
The Mujahidaat: tracing the early
Female Warriors of islam 29
Farhana Qazi
The Gendering of Women’s terrorism 57
Caron E. Gentry and Laura Sjoberg
part two. Women, terrorism, and Contemporary Conflicts
Zombies versus Black Widows: Women as
Propaganda in the Chechen Conflict 83
Alisa Stack
Aatish-e-Chinar: in Kashmir, Where
Women Keep resistance Alive 96
Swati Parashar
The Committed revolutionary: reflections
on a Conversation with Leila Khaled 120
Caron E. Gentry