Cornell University Press
Veiled Threats
About this book
Veiled Threats challenges the idea that women in violent terrorist groups lack agency. Too often, these women are assumed to be controlled by men: their fathers, their husbands, or some other male relative. Mia Bloom contests this narrow understanding. Although extremist groups often control different aspects of women's lives, including their religious obligations or dress, jihadi women have asserted themselves in myriad ways. Bloom interrogates the prevailing perceptions about women's involvement in violent extremism exclusively as victims: manipulated, drugged, or coerced. Following her pioneering work on women in Bombshell, Bloom lifts the veil of the secret world of women in jihadi groups to provide a nuanced and complex explanation of their motivations and challenge misperceptions about women's agency.
Veiled Threats explores the range of roles of the women involved in jihad—not only across secular and religious groups but within affiliated religious groups—and examines how these extremist groups have used rape as a weapon of war. Bloom explains how women are used and abused, deployed and destroyed, and the many ways in which their roles in terrorism have evolved over the past three decades.
Author / Editor information
Mia Bloom is the International Security Fellow at New America. She has authored or coauthored more than eighty articles on extremism and several books, such as Small Arms and Dying to Kill, among others. Bloom serves on the board of Women without Borders.
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Veiled Threats contests the dominant narrative that women involved in violent extremism are passive victims or manipulated pawns Bloom critiques media and scholarly portrayals that reduce women's involvement to emotional reactions or male influence and instead presents a nuanced analysis of how women are radicalized, recruited, victimized, and deployed by extremist groups.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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INTRODUCTION
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1 WOMEN IN ISIS COMPARED TO WOMEN IN AL QAEDA
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2 RADICALIZATION AND RECRUITMENT ONLINE
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3 BOKO HARAM AND WEAPONIZING MISOGYNY
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4 WOMEN BOUGHT, SOLD, AND ABUSED BY JIHADIS
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5 THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
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CONCLUSIONS
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Notes
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Bibliography
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