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Bibliography: Women and Terrorism PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 14, Issue 2 Bibliography: Women and Terrorism Compiled and selected by Judith Tinnes [Bibliographic Series of Perspectives on Terrorism – BSPT-JT-2020-4] Abstract This bibliography contains journal articles, book chapters, books, edited volumes, theses, grey literature, bibliogra- phies and other resources on women and terrorism. It covers women’s involvement in terrorism (as perpetrators / supporters) and counter-terrorism, as well as their victimization. The bibliography focuses on recent publications (up to March 2020) and should not be considered as exhaustive. The literature has been retrieved by manually browsing more than 200 core and periphery sources in the field of Terrorism Studies. Additionally, full-text and reference retrieval systems have been employed to broaden the search. Keywords: bibliography, resources, literature, women, females, gender, role, terrorism NB: All websites were last visited on 02.04.2020. - See also Note for the Reader at the end of this literature list. Bibliographies and other Resources Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) (2018): Women’s Roles in Peace Processes. [Data and In-Depth Profiles of Major Peace Processes from 1990 to Present]. URL: https://www.cfr.org/interactive/womens-participa- tion-in-peace-processes/explore-the-data Gentry, Caron (2017, August): Gender and Terrorism. Oxford Bibliographies Online. DOI: https://doi. org/10.1093/obo/9780199743292-0220 NATO Multimedia Library (2019, September): Women, Peace and Security. (Thematic Bibliography No. 5/19). URL: http://www.natolibguides.info/ld.php?content_id=32520506 One Earth Future (OEF), Our Secure Future (OSF) program (2019): Just the Facts: A Selected Annotated Bibli- ography to Support Evidence-Based Policymaking on Women, Peace and Security. URL: https://oneearthfuture. org/news/just-facts-women-peace-and-security Books and Edited Volumes Abraham, Rachel (2016): Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House. Abu Rumman, Mohammad; Abu Hanieh, Hassan (2017): Infatuated with Martyrdom: Female Jihadism from Al-Qaeda to the “Islamic State”. (Banan Malkawi, Trans.). [e-Book]. Amman: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Jordan & Iraq. URL: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/amman/13996.pdf Alabed, Bana (2017): Dear World: A Syrian Girl’s Story of War and Plea for Peace. New York: Simon & Schuster. Alison, Miranda H. (2009): Women and Political Violence: Female Combatants in Ethno-National Conflict. (Contemporary Security Studies). Abingdon: Routledge. Argenti-Pillen, Alex (2003): Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka. (Ethnogra- phy of Political Violence). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Aroussi, Sahla (Ed.) (2017): Rethinking National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series – E: Human and Societal Dynamics, Vol. 135). Amsterdam: IOS Press. Auga, Ulrike; von Braun, Christina (Eds.) (2006): Gender in Conflicts: Palestine – Israel – Germany. (Berliner ISSN 2334-3745 155 April 2020 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 14, Issue 2 Gender Studies). Berlin: LIT Verlag. Avraham, Rachel (2016): Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing. Bennoune, Karima (2013): Your Fatwa does not Apply here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fun- damentalism. New York: W. W. Norton. Berko, Anat (2007): The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and their Dispatchers. (Elizabeth Yuval, Trans.). Westport: Praeger Security International. Berko, Anat (2012): The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers. Lanham: Rowman & Little- field. Berry, Marie E. (2018): War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herze- govina. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108236003 Bielby, Clare (2012): Violent Women in Print: Representations in the West German Print Media of the 1960s and 1970s. Rochester: Camden House. Billaud, Julie (2015): Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan. (The Ethnography of Political Violence). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Bloom, Mia (2011): Bombshell: Women and Terrorism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Brown, Katherine E. (in press): Gender, Religion, Extremism: Finding Women in Anti-Radicalization. (Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations). New York: Oxford University Press. Caldwell, Ryan Ashley (2016): Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib. (Classical and Con- temporary Social Theory). Abingdon: Routledge. (Original work published 2012) Chandler, Robin M.; Wang, Lihua; Fuller, Linda K.; (Eds.) (2010): Women, War, and Violence: Person- al Perspectives and Global Activism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi. org/10.1057/9780230111974 Clark, Lindsay C. (2019): Gender and Drone Warfare: A Hauntological Perspective. (Routledge Studies in Gen- der and Security). Abingdon: Routledge. Cohn, Carol (Ed.) (2013): Women and Wars. Cambridge: Polity Press. Colvin, Sarah (2009): Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism: Language, Violence, and Identity. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture). Rochester: Camden House. Cook, Joana (2020): A Woman’s Place: U.S. Counterterrorism since 9/11. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Cragin, R. Kim; Daly, Sara A. (2009): Women as Terrorists: Mothers, Recruiters, and Martyrs. Santa Barbara: Praeger Security International. Davis, Jessica (2017): Women in Modern Terrorism: From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Deb, Basuli (2015): Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture. (Routledge Inter- disciplinary Perspectives on Literature, Vol. 36). Abingdon: Routledge. Delphy, Christine (2015): Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror. (David Broder, Trans.). London: Verso. Desbois, Patrick; Nastasie, Costel (2018): The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, The Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror. (Shelley Temchin, Trans.). New York: Arcade Publishing. ISSN 2334-3745 156 April 2020 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 14, Issue 2 Dyvik, Synne L. (2016): Gendering Counterinsurgency: Performativity, Embodiment and Experience in the Af- ghan “Theatre of War”. (War, Politics and Experience). Abingdon: Routledge. Eager, Paige Whaley (2016): From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence. Abingdon: Routledge. (Original work published 2008) Eichler, Maya (Ed.) (2015): Gender and Private Security in Global Politics. (Oxford Studies in Gender and In- ternational Relations). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Eifler, Christine; Seifert, Ruth (Eds.) (2009): Gender Dynamics and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Eltantawy, Nahed (Ed.) (2016): Women and Media in the Middle East: From Veiling to Blogging. Abingdon: Routledge. England, Sarah (2018): Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala. Lanham: Lexington Books. Fink, Naureen Chowdhury; Zeiger, Sara; Bhulai, Rafia (Eds.) (2016, April):A Man’s World? Exploring the Roles of Women in Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism. [e-Book]. Abu Dhabi / New York: Hedayah / Glob- al Center on Cooperative Security. URL: https://www.globalcenter.org/publications/a-mans-world-explor- ing-the-roles-of-women-in-countering-terrorism-and-violent-extremism Frerks, Georg; Ypeij, Annelou; König, Reinhilde Sotiria (Eds.) (2016): Gender and Conflict: Embodiments, Dis- courses and Symbolic Practices. (Gender in a Global/Local World). Abingdon: Routledge. (Original work pub- lished 2014) Gacemi, Baya (2006): I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist. (Paul Côté; Constantina Mitchell, Trans.). (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Gentry, Caron E.; Shepherd, Laura J.; Sjoberg, Laura (Eds.) (2018): Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security. (Routledge Handbooks). Abingdon: Routledge. Gilmartin, Niall (2018): Female Combatants after Armed Struggle: Lost in Transition? (Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics). Abingdon: Routledge. Glynn, Ruth (2013): Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture. (Italian and Italian American Studies). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Gonzalez-Perez, Margaret (2008): Women and Terrorism: Female Activity in Domestic and International Terror Groups. (Contemporary Terrorism Studies). Abingdon: Routledge. Groen, Janny; Kranenberg, Annieke (2010): Women Warriors for Allah: An Islamist Network in the Netherlands. (Robert Naborn, Trans.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Habila, Helon (2016): The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria.New York: Columbia Global Reports. Henshaw, Alexis Leanna (2019): Why Women Rebel: Understanding Women’s Participation in Armed Rebel Groups. Abingdon: Routledge. Herath, Tamara (2012): Women in Terrorism: Case of the LTTE. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India. Holt, Maria; Jawad, Haifaa (2013): Women, Islam, and Resistance in the Arab World. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. Hussein, Shakira (2016): From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women since 9/11. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. Inge, Anabel (2017): The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman: Paths to Conversion. New York: Oxford University Press. ISSN 2334-3745 157 April 2020 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 14, Issue 2 Irving, Sarah
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