It's Complicated: Looking Closely at Women in Violent Extremism

It's Complicated: Looking Closely at Women in Violent Extremism

This article looks at how gendered assumptions about women's motivation to join and recruitment into terrorist organizations lead to equally gendered counterterrorism policies. These assumptions fail to capture the complexity of how a person choses to become involved in terrorism and distort ou...

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Veröffentlicht in:Georgetown journal of international affairs 2016-07, Vol.17 (2), p.23-30
Hauptverfasser: Sjoberg, Laura, Gentry, Caron E.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Counterterrorism
Extremism
Forum: Terrorism
Friendship
Media coverage
Recruitment
Social networks
Terrorism
Terrorist organizations
Violence
Women
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Zusammenfassung:This article looks at how gendered assumptions about women's motivation to join and recruitment into terrorist organizations lead to equally gendered counterterrorism policies. These assumptions fail to capture the complexity of how a person choses to become involved in terrorism and distort our ideas of the women who do join.
ISSN:1526-0054
2471-8831
2471-8831
DOI:10.1353/gia.2016.0021