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It’s Complicated: Looking Closely at Women in Violent Extremism
- Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
- Georgetown University Press
- Volume 17, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2016
- pp. 23-30
- 10.1353/gia.2016.0021
- Article
- Additional Information
This article looks at how gendered assumptions about women’s motivation to join and recruitment into terrorist organizations lead to equally gendered counterterrorism policies. These assumptions fail to capture the complexity of how a person choses to become involved in terrorism and distort our ideas of the women who do join.