Why Women Rebel: Understanding Women's Participation in Armed Rebel Groups

TitleWhy Women Rebel: Understanding Women's Participation in Armed Rebel Groups
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsHenshaw, Alexis Leanna
Number of Pages133
PublisherRoutledge
CityLondon
Abstract

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. 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. [Routledge]

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