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Female Fighters in Armed Conflict: Listening to Their Own Stories book cover

1st Edition

Female Fighters in Armed Conflict Listening to Their Own Stories

Edited By Béatrice Hendrich Copyright 2023
250 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the why and the how of women’s participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, providing both a historic and a contemporary focus. The volume is about women who have participated in armed conflict as members of an armed group, trained in military action, with different tasks within the conflict. The chapters endeavor to make... Read more

1. Female fighters in armed conflicts: Introduction

Béatrice Hendrich

Part 1: The historical perspective: Changing perceptions, repeating patterns?

2. A woman in power in 19th-Century South Asia: An inspiring life path for struggles against injustice

Richard Herzog

3. Fighting for peace, fighting for the country? The inclusion of women in Turkey’s national defense in the late 1930s

Béatrice Hendrich

4. Soldaderas and Guerrilleras: Camp followers and female fighters in Latin American armed conflicts in the 19th and 20th centuries

Barbara Potthast

5. Discourses about women, bodies and military combat in Vietnam: "In my heart, I always wished to go"

Thi Hue Nguyen; Eva Fuhrmann

Part 2: Case studies 1: Women in national armed forces

6. Transfer, transformation and use of combat experience inside Nazi concentration camps, 1942–1945: The fight continues after the battle

Olesia Isaiuk

7. Women soldiers in frontline war rooms: Protecting the nation on the backstage of war

Ayelet Harel

8. Women of color in the armed forces of Germany: Invisibly exposed?

Egzona Gashi; Béatrice Hendrich

Part 3: Case studies 2: The gender of sacrifice and agency

9. Gendered resistance: Self-portrayals of female suicide bombers in Palestine

Britt Ziolkowski

10. Jihad with woman’s face: Boko Haram female fighters in Cameroon

Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo

11. Demythifying the Caliphate: Asymmetrical dependencies of radicalized women in Jihadist groups in the Philippines

Charlotte Mei Yee Chin

Biography

Béatrice Hendrich is a professor of Turkey studies at the University of Cologne, Germany.

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