Veiled threats: women and global jihad
Veiled Threats challenges the idea that women in violent terrorist groups lack agency. Too often, these women are assumed to be controlled by men: their fathers, their husbands, or some other male relative. Mia Bloom contests this narrow understanding. Although extremist groups often control differe...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca London
Cornell University Press
2025
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
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| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: Bestellt 07/2025 |
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| Summary: | Veiled Threats challenges the idea that women in violent terrorist groups lack agency. Too often, these women are assumed to be controlled by men: their fathers, their husbands, or some other male relative. Mia Bloom contests this narrow understanding. Although extremist groups often control different aspects of women's lives, including their religious obligations or dress, jihadi women have asserted themselves in myriad ways. Bloom interrogates the prevailing perceptions about women's involvement in violent extremism exclusively as victims: manipulated, drugged, or coerced. Following her pioneering work on women in Bombshell, Bloom lifts the veil of the secret world of women in jihadi groups to provide a nuanced and complex explanation of their motivations and challenge misperceptions about women's agency. Veiled Threats explores the range of roles of the women involved in jihad - not only across secular and religious groups but within affiliated religious groups - and examines how these extremist groups have used rape as a weapon of war. Bloom explains how women are used and abused, deployed and destroyed, and the many ways in which their roles in terrorism have evolved over the past three decades. "Veiled Threats explores the diverse pathways that women have taken to join ISIS and other jihadi groups (such as Boko Haram or Al Qaeda) as well as the actual roles that women play in terrorist groups. " Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195-220 |
| Physical Description: | viii, 220 Seiten, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-7781-3 978-1-5017-7782-0 |
