Female suicide bombers – Male suicide bombing? looking for Gender in reporting the suicide bombings of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Brunner, Claudia

doi:10.1080/1360082042000316031

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“…62 As Mia Bloom observed, female suicide bombers in Palestine are often 'portrayed as the chaste wives and mothers of the revolution'. Divorce, 65 loss of family members, 66 adultery, 67 and motherhood 68 have all been popular explanations for women's participation in suicide terrorism in Palestine and Iraq. 64 Middle Eastern women's dependence on men has also been a theme of discussions about their motivations for committing suicide terrorism.…”

Section: Women Terrorists and The 'Beautiful Soul' Narrativementioning

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Women fighters and the ‘beautiful soul’ narrative

Sjoberg¹

2010

Int. rev. Red Cross

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This article explores women's presence in military forces around the world, looking both at women's service as soldiers and at the gendered dimensions of their soldiering particularly, and soldiering generally. It uses the 'beautiful soul' narrative to describe women's relationship with war throughout its history, and explores how this image of women's innocence of and abstention from war has often contrasted with women's actual experiences as soldiers and fighters.

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Section: Women Terrorists and The 'Beautiful Soul' Narrativementioning

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Women fighters and the ‘beautiful soul’ narrative

Sjoberg¹

2010

Int. rev. Red Cross

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“…One important feature of the perceptions research discussed so far is that it reports media representations from a Western societal perspective. However, studies have shown that there are significant differences between the portrayal of female terrorists in the Western and Arab media 53 . Issacharoff, in particular, found that the Western media focuses on personal aspects of the female terrorists, such as biographical details, social circumstances, and the constraining influence of a chauvinistic society 54 .…”

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Female Terrorism: A Review

Jacques

Taylor

2009

Terrorism and Political Violence

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The sharp growth in the number of publications examining female involvement in terrorism has produced a valuable but un-integrated body of knowledge spread across many disciplines. In this paper, we bring together 51 publications on female terrorism and use qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine the range of theoretical and methodological approaches in these papers. Using thematic analysis, we identify six primary research foci: Portrayal in media, Feminism, Interviews with terrorists, Group roles, Motivation and recruitment, and Environmental enablers. Analyses also revealed a reliance on secondary rather than primary data, narrative rather than statistical comparisons, and descriptions rather than explanations of events.

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“…While other authors are not as explicit as Nacos in identifying and describing the frames or categories into which female terrorists are generally placed, these frames, and variations of them, have been shown to be employed in a wide range of media settings, including in the US (Friedman, 2008) and international press (Hasso, 2005;Issacharoff, 2006). Two significant caveats must be noted with regard to this research, however: first, it is very narrowly focused, being almost wholly concerned with media portrayals of Palestinian female suicide bombers (Berkowitz, 2005;Brunner, 2005;Friedman, 2008;Gentry, 2009;Hasso, 2005;Issacharoff, 2006;Toles Patkin, 2004); second, all of it is qualitative rather than quantitative in nature and all is focused exclusively on female political violence perpetrators without explicit comparison with media coverage of their male counterparts. In other words, while all the authors who have contributed on this issue have marshalled evidence that accords with their analyses, none have engaged in systematic, comparative content analysis to prove their case.…”

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What’s love got to do with it? Framing ‘JihadJane’ in the US press

Conway

McInerney

2012

Media, War & Conflict

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The purpose of this article is to compare and contrast the US press coverage accorded to female terrorist plotter, Colleen LaRose, with that of two male terrorist plotters in order to test whether assertions in the academic literature regarding media treatment of women terrorists stand up to empirical scrutiny. The authors employed TextSTAT software to generate frequency counts of all words contained in 150 newspaper reports on their three subjects and then slotted relevant terms into categories fitting the commonest female terrorist frames, as identified by Nacos's article in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2005). The authors' findings confirm that women involved in terrorism receive significantly more press coverage and are framed vastly differently in the US press than their male counterparts.

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Female suicide bombers – Male suicide bombing? looking for Gender in reporting the suicide bombings of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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Women fighters and the ‘beautiful soul’ narrative

Women fighters and the ‘beautiful soul’ narrative

Female Terrorism: A Review

What’s love got to do with it? Framing ‘JihadJane’ in the US press

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