RT Book
T1 Female Fighters: Why Rebel Groups Recruit Women for War
A1 Wood, Reed M.
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/168587603X
AB Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Why Rebels Mobilize Women for War -- 2. The Strategic Implications of Female Fighters -- 3. Female Combatants in Three Civil Wars -- 4. Empirical Evaluation of Female Combatant Prevalence -- 5. Empirical Evaluation of the Effects of Female Combatants -- Conclusion: Understanding Women's Participation in Armed Resistance -- Appendix A: Version History -- Appendix B: Examples of Coding Narratives from WARD -- Appendix C: Survey Wording and Instrument -- Notes -- References -- Index
AB The presence of women combatants on the battlefield-especially in large numbers-strikes many observers as a notable departure from the historical norm. Yet women have played a significant active role in many contemporary armed rebellions. Over recent decades, numerous resistance movements in many regions of the globe have deployed thousands of female fighters in combat.In Female Fighters, Reed M. Wood explains why some rebel groups deploy women in combat while others exclude women from their ranks, and the strategic implication of this decision. Examining a vast original dataset on female fighters in over 250 rebel organizations, Wood argues rebel groups can gain considerable strategic advantages by including women fighters. Drawing on women increases the pool of available recruits and helps ameliorate resource constraints. Furthermore, the visible presence of female fighters often becomes an important propaganda tool for domestic and international audiences. Images of women combatants help raise a group's visibility, boost local recruitment, and aid the group's efforts to solicit support from transnational actors and diaspora communities. However, Wood finds that, regardless of the wartime resource challenges they face, religious fundamentalist rebels consistently resist utilizing female fighters. A rich, data-driven study, Female Fighters presents a systematic, comprehensive analysis of the impact women's participation has on organized political violence in the modern era
NO restricted access online access with authorization star
CN U21.75
SN 9780231550093
K1 Insurgency
K1 Women and war
K1 Women revolutionaries
K1 Women : Political activity
K1 Rekrutierung
K1 Militär
K1 Frau
K1 Guerilla
K1 Widerstand
K1 Aufstand
K1 Ursache
K1 Wirkung
K1 Auswirkung
K1 Bedeutung
K1 Rolle
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism
K1 Erde
K1 Bewaffneter Konflikt : Rebellion : Kriegerin : Geschlechtsunterschied : Frauenbild
K1 eBook-DeGruyter-EBS-2021-2022
DO 10.7312/wood19298