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Autore |
Cragin Kim |
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Titolo |
Women as terrorists : mothers, recruiters, and martyrs / / R. Kim Cragin and Sara A. Daly |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Security International, , c2009 |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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979-82-16-03696-8 |
1-282-53496-3 |
9786612534966 |
0-313-05944-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (158 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Terrorist motivations and group dynamics -- Women as logisticians -- Women as recruiters -- Women as suicide bombers -- Women as operational leaders and fighters -- Women as political vanguards -- Women as terrorists, past, present and future. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Women as Terrorists: Mothers, Recruiters, and Martyrs is the first post-September 11 book to examine women's multifarious roles in terrorist organizations of all stripes around the world. It covers political, religious, ethno-separatist, and Maoist groups in countries as diverse as Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya, Sri Lanka, Colombia, South Africa, the Philippines, and Northern Ireland. ||Modeling terrorist organizations as purposive organizations that depend for support, recruitment, and rationale on a culturally defined community of sympathizers, the authors explore why women become involved in te |
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