Terrorism and Violent Conflict Women's Agency, Leadership, and Responses /

• Main Authors: Poloni-Staudinger, Lori. (Author), Ortbals, Candice D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science, 8
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Developmental psychology.; Social Sciences.; Political Science, general.; Gender Studies.; Social Sciences, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5641-4

This book explores how gender intersects with political violence, and particularly terrorism.� We ask how gender relations and understandings of femininity and masculinity influence political violence, which includes politics related to terrorism, state terrorism, and genocide. We investigate how wo...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• WOMEN AS VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM
• Gendercide
• The Individual Terrorist
• Civil Society and Terrorism
• Women Elites and Terrorism
• Womens and Mens Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Related to Terrorism
• Conclusion.