CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Fraschetti, Marta |
|---|---|
| Title | The Female Face of Terrorism: Women's Violence and Gender Stereotypes |
| Summary | Women’s involvement in terrorism has been significant, yet it has often been overlooked due to the prevailing idea that terrorism is strictly a man’s domain. Despite their involvement, there persists a societal bias that fails to recognize women as terrorists and agents of violence and instead casts them in roles shaped by enduring gender stereotypes. These narratives often depict terrorist women as non-violent; if they engage in violence, they must have been forced by a man, motivated by romantic ties, driven mad by personal grievances or infertility; and when they are acknowledged as violent terrorists, they are not even seen as women at all but rather as femininities gone bad. By drawing on the theory by Gentry and Sjoberg, this thesis posits that women terrorists are guilty of a double transgression: their acts of violence and the violation of gendered stereotypes that traditionally depict them as incapable of such violence. Building on this framework, the thesis asserts that the gender stereotypes prevalent in the portrayal of women terrorists do not merely obscure the reality of women’s participation in terrorism but also highlight a profound societal bias in the perception of women’s roles in global politics and society at large. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu, Daniel |
| Department | Undergraduate Studies BA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/fraschetti_marta.pdf |
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