1st Edition

Terrorism, Gender and Women Toward an Integrated Research Agenda

Edited By Alexandra Phelan Copyright 2021
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

Terrorism, Gender and Women: Towards an Integrated Research Agenda encourages greater integration of gender-sensitive approaches to studies of violent extremism and terrorism. This book seeks to create and inspire a dialogue among scholars of conflict, terrorism and gender by suggesting the necessity of incorporating gender analysis to fill gaps within, and further enhance, our... Read more

Special Issue Introduction for Terrorism, Gender and Women: Toward an Integrated Research Agenda

Alexandra Phelan

1. Women Too: Explaining Gender Ideologies of Ethnopolitical Organizations

Victor Asal, Nazli Avdan and Nourah Shuaibi

2. Part and Parcel? Examining Al Shabaab and Boko Haram’s Violence Targeting Civilians and Violence Targeting Women

Hilary Matfess

3. From Pawn to Knights: The Changing Role of Women’s Agency in Terrorism?

Mia Bloom and Ayse Lokmanoglu

4. Do White Supremacist Women Adopt Movement Archetypes of Mother, Whore, and Fighter?

Mehr Latif, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele and Pete Simi

5. Exceptional Inclusion: Understanding the PKK’s Gender Policy

Ora Szekely

6. Outbidding and Gender: Dynamics in the Colombian Civil War

Alexis Henshaw

7. The Lure of (Violent) Extremism: Gender Constructs in Online Recruitment and Messaging in Indonesia

Melissa Frances Johnston, Muhammad Iqbal and Jacqui True

8. Gendered Reflections? Extremism in the UK’s Radical Right and al-Muhajiroun Networks

Elizabeth Pearson

Biography

Dr. Alexandra Phelan is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and Deputy Director of Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre (Monash GPS), at Monash University, Australia.