CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Savran, Bengisu |
|---|---|
| Title | Women In Terrorism: A Place For Emancipation? |
| Summary | Abstract Women's involvement in terrorism has evolved in recent years in terms of numbers and the roles undertaken. These developments have opened up questions about why women participate in terrorism and what are the consequences of it. By taking up the emancipation angle as the main focus, the thesis argues that most women have become involved in terrorism with the desire for emancipation and escape from the patriarchal societies they live in. However, terrorism has not emancipated these women. The study criticizes the existing women in terrorism literature for neither having the theoretical discussion of emancipation nor a comparative perspective. This is why it revisits and challenges the literature on women’s emancipation through terrorism which sees an increase in relative freedom of action as emancipation. By differentiating it from previous research, the thesis argues that it is not possible to be emancipated in terrorism because of its hierarchal and men-led structures. Through comparative case studies and analyzing interviews with female terrorists in the cases of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elaam and Palestinian terrorist groups, the thesis brings up new perspectives both to the causes of terrorism and the women empowerment debates. |
| Supervisor | Bogaards, Matthijs |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/savran_bengisu.pdf |
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