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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.

"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. The volume is about women who have participated in armed conflict, as members of an armed group, trained in military action, with different tasks within the conflict. The chapters are all concerned to make women's own voices heard, to discover the untold stories of women as perpetrators and facilitators of military violence, and the authors do this through the use of personal interviews and the study of primary documents. The work widens the geographical perspective of feminist security studies to discover in what ways the historical, political, and social context has motivated the women to participate in military action, and presents new case study data from Germany, Ukraine, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Cameroon, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Latin America. Temporally, the chapters cover almost two centuries, from late 19th century to the present day, touching upon a wide variety of examples of armed conflict, from wars of independence to the Second World War. Bringing together approaches from politics, history, anthropology, and area studies, the chapters are informed by the fundamental insights of feminist research and address such pivotal questions as hegemonic masculinity in the armed forces and the relation between women's armed violence and female agency. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers in gender and security studies, armed conflict and history"--

From today's perspective, Islam and capitalism seem to be natural partners. In a world where state socialism is on the wane, Islamic states in particular seem to be run by an exploitative class that in their hyper-capitalist way of profit-making does not care at all about social justice. Modern history, however, has seen a great number of movements, political parties and individuals propagating the incompatibility of capitalism with Islam. And at a second glance, the quest for social justice and the rejection of capitalism actually appear as a driving force in different Islamic discourses, including that of the so-called Islamic State. The articles of this volume offer intriguing and original thoughts about the appropriate economic system for a Muslim society. Some of the concepts are based right away on socialism, while others call for a genuine, non-Western Islamic 'third way' between communism and capitalism. In fact, political reality has forced the secular Left to grapple with the response of Islamic movements to poverty and injustice. The volume therefore also includes useful insights into the Left's reaction to this political challenge. The articles cover a wide range of world regions, not only the Middle East and Turkey, but also the Far East and North Africa, with a time span ranging from the late 19th century to the present. In addition, the reader is also introduced to economic concepts of early Islam and their textual sources.

This article discusses Islamic Religious Education (re) in present day Cyprus on both the southern and northern sides the dividing line established in 1974.reis understood in its broadest sense to includereclasses in formal education, Qur'an teaching in a mosque-like environment or summer school instruction. First an introductory description of the political background of current Cyprus laws is depicted, followed by an illustration of the actors, past events and options for the future. Case studies on recent conflicts in north Cyprus highlight the political aspect of providing or rejectingre. Lastly, the article raises the question as to how the differing approaches torein north and south Cyprus could be integrated once the Cyprus Conflict has been settled.

Was verbirgt sich hinter der oft verwendeten Vorsilbe Trans*? Um diese Frage aus kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zu beleuchten, stellen die Beiträge des Bandes aktuelle grenzüberschreitende Praktiken, Konzepte und Austauschbeziehungen vor. Sie zeigen: Gerade für die hier betrachteten Regionen - vom Nahen Osten und Indien über Süd- bis nach Ostasien - haben Trans*Syndrome eine wichtige Bedeutung. Die kulturelle und wirtschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Rest der Welt führt zu Konflikten in Alltag, Kultur und Politik. Es kommt aber auch zu Prozessen der Übersetzung, Grenzüberschreitung und Verwandlung, was neue Perspektiven und Praktiken hervorbringt