Female Fighters in Armed Conflict (eBook, PDF)

Listening to Their Own Stories
Redaktion: Hendrich, Béatrice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000924237
• Artikelnr.: 68291859

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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, 1942-1945: 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