Occidentalism meets the female suicide bomber: A critical reflection on recent terrorism debates; A review essay

C Brunner - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
… body of the female suicide bomber remain largely unexamined in … suicide bombing in a
comparative perspective, but the Arab/Muslim/Palestinian woman who undertakes a suicide

Wilayat Shahidat: Boko Haram, the Islamic State, and the question of the female suicide bomber

E Pearson - Boko Haram Beyond the Headlines: Analyses of …, 2018 - JSTOR
female suicide bomber in an attack on a military barracks in Gombe State in June 2014,
and since then it has far outstripped any previous terrorist … with myths of violent female “jihadis” …

[PDF][PDF] Female terrorists in ISIS, al Qaeda and 21rst century terrorism

A Speckhard - Trends Research: Inside the mind of a Jihadist, 2015 - academia.edu
… But facing the societal myth that we don’t want to acknowledge the … female suicide bombers
from the start with a fifty/fifty ration of males to females throughout their campaign of suicide

From woman warrior to innocent child: telling gendered news stories of women terrorists

D Berkowitz, Q Ling - Handbook on gender and war, 2016 - elgaronline.com
… resonant gender-specific myths to help both journalists and … during 2002 of women Palestinian
suicide bombers (Berkowitz… ‘woman terrorist’, ‘ISIS women’, ‘female suicide bombers’ and …

[PDF][PDF] Good or Bad Agents? Western Fascination with Women and the Construction of Female Objects during the ISIS Crisis

M Kollárová - Mémoire de maîtrise en relations internationales et …, 2015 - etd.ceu.edu
… However, the emergence of female guerrilla fighters, brave military … female suicide
bombers have significantly challenged these traditional assumptions and the images of female

Femme fatale: The lethality of female suicide bombers

BP Alakoc - Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… Utilizing newly coded data on the tactical attributes of suicide terrorism worldwide from … of
female suicide bombers is not only positively correlated with the lethality of the suicide attacks, …

From pawn to knights: The changing role of women's agency in terrorism?

M Bloom, A Lokmanoglu - Terrorism, Gender and Women, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
… The 1970s witnessed the emergence of women as important protagonists in the conflicts …
suicide attacks perpetrated by female suicide bombers. This growing trend of female bombers

[PDF][PDF] Female Suicide Terrorism: A Structural Analysis of Women's Active Participation in Jihad

A Santos-Joswig - 2024 - dspace.cuni.cz
… This research seeks to understand why female suicide bombers commit Jihad. A variety of
… for myth creations. One such myth states that women's reasons for joining terrorist groups …

The Terrorists' Secret and Hidden Weapon

E Wilson - 2023 - digitalcommons.liberty.edu
… domestic ideology of a woman with the depiction of females as suicide bombers. Additionally,
… “A subject declares ‘my life is not worth living, but in my death, I will produce a myth that is …

[PDF][PDF] Life at ISIS: The roles of Western men, women and children

R De Bont, D Weggemans, R Peters… - Security and Global …, 2017 - researchgate.net
… This becomes apparent when looking at the ISIS registration forms. Newcomers are asked
whether they want to be a fighter, a suicide fighter or a suicide bomber, as well as what their ‘…