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Why Women Rebel - Understanding Women's Participation in Armed Rebel Groups (Hardcover)
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Why Women Rebel - Understanding Women's Participation in Armed Rebel Groups (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics
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Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which
women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they
choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed
data on women's participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel
groups. The book provides a theoretical analysis drawing upon both
mainstream literature in the social sciences and critical, feminist
inquiry on women and political violence to offer a new gendered
theory on why women rebel. The book reveals that women are active
in over half of all rebel groups sampled and that, while the
majority of rebel groups have women serving in support roles away
from direct combat, approximately a third of these groups employ
women in the conduct of armed attacks, and just over a quarter have
women in a leadership capacity. Henshaw reaffirms the idea that
women are more likely to be engaged in left-wing political
organizations, but does suggest that more conservative or
traditional movements may also successfully incorporate women by
appealing to concerns about community rights. Addressing several
gaps in the current literature on this topic, this book will be of
interest to academics in the fields of political science,
international relations, security studies, and gender and women's
studies.
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