Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
GentryCaron E, |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
SjobergLaura, 1979- |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Athens |
Published: |
University of Georgia Press; |
Year of Publication: |
2011 |
Description: |
1 online resource (224 p.). |
Series: |
Studies in security and international affairs |
Subject: |
Global politics - |
Subject: |
Political violence - |
Subject: |
Violence in women - Case studies - |
Subject: |
Violence in women - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820341309/ |
Notes: |
Includes index |
ISBN: |
9780820341309electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0820341304electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780820335834hbk. |
ISBN: |
0820335835hbk. |
ISBN: |
9780820340388pbk. |
Content Note: |
Introduction. Women, gender, and terrorism / Laura Sjoberg, Grace D.Cooke, and Stacey Reiter Neal -- The Mujahidaat : tracing the early female warriors of Islam / Farhana Qazi -- The gendering of women's terrorism / Caron E. Gentry and Laura Sjoberg -- Zombies versus black widows: women as propaganda in the Chechen conflict / Alisa Stack-O'Connor -- Aatish-e-Chinar : in Kashmir, where womenkeep resistance alive / Swati Parashar -- The committed revolutionary : reflections on a conversation with Leila Khaled / Caron E. Gentry -- "In the war front we never think we are women" : women, gender, and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Elam / Miranda Alison -- Al-Qaeda's use of female suicide bombers in Iraq : a case study / Jennie Stone and Katherine Pattillo -- The neo-orientalist narratives of women's involvement in al-qaeda / Caron E. Gentry-- Blinded by the explosion? security and resistance in Muslim women'ssuicide terrorism / Katherine E. Brown -- Conclusion. The study of women, gender, and terrorism / Laura Sjoberg |