Female Fighters in Armed Conflict: Listening to Their Own Stories

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Chapter 1 Female fighters in armed conflict: Introduction
Part 1 The historical perspective: Changing perceptions, repeating patterns?
	Chapter 2 A woman in power in 19th-century South Asia: An inspiring life path for struggles against injustice
	Chapter 3 Fighting for peace, fighting for the country?: The inclusion of women in Turkey’s national defense in the late 1930s
	Chapter 4 Soldaderas and Guerrilleras: Camp followers and female fighters in Latin American armed conflicts in the 19th and 20th centuries
	Chapter 5 Discourses about women, bodies and military combat in Vietnam: “In my heart, I always wished to go”
Part 2 Case studies 1: Women in national armed forces
	Chapter 6 Transfer, transformation and use of combat experience inside Nazi concentration camps, 1942–1945: The fight continues after the battle
	Chapter 7 Women soldiers in frontline war rooms: Protecting the nation on the backstage of war
	Chapter 8 Women of color in the armed forces of Germany: Invisibly exposed?
Part 3 Case studies 2: The gender of sacrifice and agency
	Chapter 9 Gendered resistance: Self-portrayals of female suicide bombers in Palestine
	Chapter 10 Jihad with a woman’s face: Boko Haram female fighters in Cameroon
	Chapter 11 Demythifying the caliphate: Asymmetrical dependencies of radicalized women in jihadist groups in the Philippines
Index