Female Fighters in Armed Conflict

This book explores the why and the how of women's participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, providing both a historic and a contemporary focus.

Autorentext

Béatrice Hendrich is a professor of Turkey studies at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Klappentext

This book explores the why and the how of women's participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, providing both a historic and a contemporary focus.

Inhalt

1. Female fighters in armed conflicts: Introduction Part 1: The historical perspective: Changing perceptions, repeating patterns? 2. A woman in power in 19th-Century South Asia: An inspiring life path for struggles against injustice 3. Fighting for peace, fighting for the country? The inclusion of women in Turkey's national defense in the late 1930s 4. Soldaderas and Guerrilleras: Camp followers and female fighters in Latin American armed conflicts in the 19th and 20th centuries 5. Discourses about women, bodies and military combat in Vietnam: "In my heart, I always wished to go" Part 2: Case studies 1: Women in national armed forces 6. Transfer, transformation and use of combat experience inside Nazi concentration camps, 19421945: The fight continues after the battle 7. Women soldiers in frontline war rooms: Protecting the nation on the backstage of war 8. Women of color in the armed forces of Germany: Invisibly exposed? Part 3: Case studies 2: The gender of sacrifice and agency 9. Gendered resistance: Self-portrayals of female suicide bombers in Palestine 10. Jihad with woman's face: Boko Haram female fighters in Cameroon 11. Demythifying the Caliphate: Asymmetrical dependencies of radicalized women in Jihadist groups in the Philippines