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"Women as Agents of Violence" published on by Oxford University Press.

Much of the recent work on Palestinian female suicide bombers (shahidas) explains their violence in domestic and maternal language. These descriptions read shockingly similar to the maternalist position. Maternalism typically equates women's participation in the political arena with peace and non-violence, and is criticized for essentializing women's role. The application of a 'twisted' maternalism to women's political violence also appears to be essentializing and objectifying. This body of work, then, analyzes the application of maternalism to the Palestinian shahidas. This characterization arguably subordinates women's choices to engage in political violence in a way that relies upon gendered assumptions about what it means to be a woman. Adapted from the source document.

About the Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: A Woman did that?; 2. Seeing Gender in Theories of People's Political Violence; 3. Seeing Women's Extralegal Violence; 4. Saving, Supporting and Supplicating: The Mother Narrative; 5. Femininity Gone Awry: The Monster Narrative; 6. Sex/Violence: The Whore Narrative; 7. Conclusion: Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores; Notes; Sources used; Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Women, Gender, and Terrorism -- PART ONE. Historical Perspectives on Women and Terrorism -- The Mujahidaat: Tracing the Early Female Warriors of Islam -- The Gendering of Women's Terrorism -- PART TWO. Women, Terrorism, and Contemporary Conflicts -- Zombies versus Black Widows: Women as Propaganda in the Chechen Conflict -- Aatish-e-Chinar: In Kashmir, Where Women Keep Resistance Alive -- The Committed Revolutionary: Reflections on a Conversation with Leila Khaled -- "In the war front we never think that we are women": Women, Gender, and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam -- PART THREE. Women, Gender, and al-Qaeda -- Al-Qaeda's Use of Female Suicide Bombers in iraq: A Case Study -- The Neo-Orientalist Narratives of Women's Involvement in al-Qaeda -- Blinded by the explosion? Security and Resistance in Muslim Women's Suicide Terrorism -- Conclusion. The Study of Women, Gender, and terrorism -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Introduction. Women, gender, and terrorism / Laura Sjoberg, Grace D. Cooke, and Stacey Reiter Neal -- The Mujahidaat : tracing the early female warriors of Islam / Farhana Qazi -- The gendering of women's terrorism / Caron E. Gentry and Laura Sjoberg -- Zombies versus black widows : women as propaganda in the Chechen conflict / Alisa Stack-O'Connor -- Aatish-e-Chinar : in Kashmir, where women keep resistance alive / Swati Parashar -- The committed revolutionary : reflections on a conversation with Leila Khaled / Caron E. Gentry -- "In the war front we never think we are women" : women, gender, and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Elam / Miranda Alison -- Al-Qaeda's use of female suicide bombers in Iraq : a case study / Jennie Stone and Katherine Pattillo -- The neo-orientalist narratives of women's involvement in al-qaeda / Caron E. Gentry -- Blinded by the explosion? security and resistance in Muslim women's suicide terrorism / Katherine E. Brown -- Conclusion. The study of women, gender, and terrorism / Laura Sjoberg

In almost every culture and everyperiod of history, a she-devil emerges asan example of all that is rotten in thefemale sex. This Medusa draws togetherthe many forms of female perversion:a woman whose sexuality is debauchedand foul, pornographic and bisexual;a woman who knows none of the fineand noble instincts when it comes tomen and children; a woman who liesand deceives, manipulates andcorrupts. A woman who is clever andpowerful. This is a woman who is fardeadlier than the male, in fact not awoman at all.

Whenever stories of women's violence in global politics are presented in mainstream media, their authors explain away the possibility that women make a conscious choice to kill or injure. Violent women interrupt gender stereotypes: they are not the helpless and peaceful women that soldiers need to protect from enemies in traditional war tales. Instead of acknowledging the falseness of the underlying gender assumptions, public and publicized stories emphasize the singularity and sexual depravity of violent women, an account we call the `whore' narrative. This article considers two types of whore narrative: stories of violent women's erotomania, and of violent women as sexually dysfunctional. Though the whore narrative has been consistently employed historically and cross-culturally, this article identifies a culture-based dimension unique to the war on terror. It argues that analysis of these narratives have important implications for the study of gender in global politics.

"Robert Papes viel diskutiertes Buch 'Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism' (2005) zeigt deutlich die Selbstverständlichkeit eines vermeintlich geschlechtsneutralen Zugangs zur Analyse von männlichen und weiblichen SelbstmordterroristInnen. Papes Hauptargument ist, dass Selbstmordterrorismus eine durchaus rationale Strategie politischer AkteurInnen sei, der sich in Form von Kampagnen ausschließlich gegen Demokratien richte. Die Studie benennt zwar Männer wie Frauen als rationale politische Individuen bzw. AkteurInnen, betont zugleich aber bei Frauen stark den emotionalen Aspekt der Motivation. In diesem Artikel argumentieren die Verfasser, dass geschlechtsneutrale Studien wie die von Robert A. Pape nur vermeintlich geschlechtsneutral sind und gerade diese Annahme dazu führt, dass soziale und politische Dimensionen von Geschlechterordnungen ebenso wie die Vergeschlechtlichung des Sozialen und Politischen ausgeblendet werden. Darüber hinaus sagen die Verfasser, dass das Modell der Rational Choice Theorie, wie sie bei Pape eindrücklich angewendet wird, die Kluft zwischen den Geschlechtern noch vergrößert, indem 'männlichen' Werten der Vorzug gegenüber 'weiblichen' gegeben wird. Als Alternative schlagen die Verfasser eine dreifache Modifikation des Zugangs zu einer Beforschung von Selbstmordterrorismus vor, die sowohl politische als auch emotionale Motivationen inkludiert: Vergeschlechtlichte Repräsentationen von SelbstmordattentäterInnen verstärken Stereotype über Geschlecht sowie über Selbstmordterrorismus; das Ausblenden der Komplexität von Motivationen bringt die Vielfalt der Variablen, die in die Entscheidung der 'MärtyrerInnen' einfließen, nicht zum Verschwinden; und ein theoretischer Zugang, der das Emotionale in den Vordergrund stellt, könnte die Verengung des Rational Choice Ansatzes ausgleichen. Der Aufsatz schließt mit Belegen für unsere These am Beispiel der tschetschenischen 'Schwarzen Witwen', womit die der Verfasser Vorschläge als explanatorisch wertvoll diskutiert werden." (Autorenreferat)