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 eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science, 8
• Subjects: Political science.; Social sciences.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Gender Studies.; Social Sciences, general.

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
• Women’s and Men’s Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Related to Terrorism
• Conclusion.