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Recent events, including the rise of the Islamic State and its overt recruitment of Western women, have once again brought the issue of women participating in terrorist organizations to the forefront. Yet much remains to be understood about why women join terrorist organizations and why groups choose to incorporate them into their structures and operations. The book, which draws from a unique dataset compiled over a decade, tackles these questions and analyzes women's inclusion in terrorist organizations since the beginning of modern terrorism, covering both religious and ethno-nationalist terrorism and conflict. The text opens with a discussion of the definition of terrorism before examining key issues, such as how and why women join terrorist groups, what women's inclusion in terrorist organizations reveals about the nature and longevity of both the groups and the conflicts, the future of women's role in terrorist organizations and attacks (particularly given the rise of new terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq), and the types of attacks women perpetrate and how they compare across groups. By looking at case studies - including Hizballah, Chechnya, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, and more - this text shows that women's inclusion in various terrorist organizations is largely a pragmatic choice by the group. It also highlights the cross-pollination of ideas between differently motivated groups. All these issues, along with the role of the media and the Internet in radicalization and recruitment processes, are explored to provide an exhaustive account of the many roles for women in terrorist groups today.

WOMEN TERRORISTS--ISLAMIC COUNTRIES

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En France, un quart des personnes incarcérées pour des faits de terrorisme jihadiste sont des femmes. Presque absentes dans les années 1990, en arrière-plan dans la décennie suivante, elles sont devenues des protagonistes de l’islamisme radical et violent au cours des années 2010, marquées par de multiples attentats sur le sol français et par l’essor de l’État islamique en Syrie. Rarement combattantes, elles n’en sont pas moins des actrices politiques et des rouages essentiels à la perpétuation de la lutte jihadiste.Qui sont ces femmes ? De quels milieux, de quels genres de famille viennent-elles ? Qu’espèrent-elles d’un idéal qui leur dénie toute place dans l’espace public ? De quelles manières se sont-elles engagées ? Aujourd’hui, quels regards portent-elles sur leur parcours ? Et qu’est-ce que ces derniers nous disent de la société française du début du XXIe siècle ?À distance des polémiques ou des préjugés, cette enquête exceptionnelle dresse un constat objectif, à partir de nombreux entretiens. Elle a été menée au sein même des prisons françaises, auprès de l’ensemble des détenues concernées.

Jihad --- Terrorism --- Radicalism --- Women terrorists --- Religious aspects --- Islam