Female terrorism in America: past and current perspectives

Introduction -- Definitions and Background -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Female Terrorism in Left-Wing American Organizations -- Female Puerto Rican Terrorism in America -- Female Terrorism in Right-Wing American Organizations -- Roles in Female Terrorism: From Leadership to More Passive Positions -- Radicalization to Terrorism -- Depictions in the Media -- Motivations for Joining Terrorist Organizations -- Muslim Female Terrorists in America -- The Influence of Social Media -- The Inflammatory Rhetoric of Female Terrorists -- Conclusions, Implications, and Solutions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The four objectives of this book -- U.S. domestic terrorism, not international terrorism -- The gaps in research on female terrorism in America -- A different perspective from the mass media -- Competitive works -- Summary of all chapters -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Definitions and background -- Terrorism: origin and description -- Political motives -- Terrorism in America -- Objectives of terrorism -- Components of terrorism -- Terrorism as a communication process -- Terrorism as persuasion -- Lone-wolf terrorists -- Lone-wolf female terrorists -- Case study: Elizabeth Lecron -- Sex and gender -- Female/woman -- Female terrorism in America -- History of female terrorism -- Facts and statistics on female terrorism today -- Domestic vs. international female terrorism -- Is female terrorism always a result of feminist militancy? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Theoretical perspectives -- Social learning theory (SLT) -- Learning through interaction -- Learning through imitation -- Learning through reinforcement -- Case study: social learning for women in the Islamic State of of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) -- Crime as group learning -- Case study: differential association and Patricia Hearst -- General strain theory (GST) -- Strains -- A general strain theory of terrorism -- GST and female terrorism -- Rational choice theory (RCT) -- RCT and political violence -- RCT and terrorism: general perspectives -- RCT and terrorism: mental health -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Female terrorism in left-wing American organizations -- The Weather Underground -- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) -- Origins of terrorist ideology -- Racial and gender perspectives -- Marxist perspectives -- Terrorist actions.