Female fighters in armed conflict: listening to their own stories

In: Routledge studies in gender and security

Abstract

Female fighters in armed conflicts / Béatrice Hendrich -- A woman in power in 19th-Century South Asia : An inspiring life path for struggles against injustice / Richard Herzog -- Fighting for peace, fighting for the country? The inclusion of women in Turkey's national defense in the late 1930s / Béatrice Hendrich -- Soldaderas and Guerrilleras : Camp followers and female fighters in Latin American armed conflicts in the 19th and 20th centuries / Barbara Potthast -- Discourses about women, bodies and military combat in Vietnam : "In my heart, I always wished to go" / Thi Hue Nguyen; Eva Fuhrmann -- Transfer, transformation and use of combat experience inside Nazi concentration camps, 1942-1945 : The fight continues after the battle / Olesia Isaiuk -- Women soldiers in frontline war rooms : Protecting the nation on the backstage of war / Ayelet Harel -- Women of color in the armed forces of Germany : Invisibly exposed? / Egzona Gashi; Béatrice Hendrich -- Gendered resistance : Self-portrayals of female suicide bombers in Palestine / Britt Ziolkowski -- Jihad with woman's face : Boko Haram female fighters in Cameroon / Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo -- Demythifying the Caliphate : Asymmetrical dependencies of radicalized women in Jihadist groups in the Philippines / Charlotte Mei Yee Chin.