Women and Political Violence: Female Combatants in Ethno-national Conflict (Contemporary Security Studies)

by Miranda Alison (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $152.83

  Challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants' involvement in ethno-national conflicts. Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways in which women have traditionally been depicted.