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armed struggle
Author_Ariane Bogain
Author_Leonie B. Jackson
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counterinsurgency
decolonisation
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far right
feminism
islamism
jihadists
political violence
radicalisation
separatists
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- ISBN 9781788218962
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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News media reporting on female political violence invariably portrays the perpetrators as duped, naïve and exploited, acting from personal rather than political motivations, as anomalous intruders in a masculine realm and de-feminized as monsters. By diminishing their agency, the challenge that women’s violence poses to the gendered national order is contained.
Drawing on five comparative case studies spanning more than 70 years of militant campaigns against the UK and France, this book interrogates how media representations of politically violent women are shaped by gender, race, religion, class and geography. It considers how women’s political violence is framed, what influences these portrayals, and what ideological work they perform. In answering these questions, the book reveals how these representations operate as a battleground where the nation’s gendered boundaries are defined and defended, and the national order is reproduced.
Ariane Bogain is Senior Lecturer in French and Politics at Northumbria University. Her research critically investigates the terrorism discourse in France, focusing on legitimisation of counter-terrorism measures by state authorities, the construction of national identity as a reaction to terrorist attacks, and the role of gender in the construction of French men and women who joined ISIS. Leonie B. Jackson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Northumbria University. She is the author of The Monstrous and the Vulnerable: Framing British Jihadi Brides (2021) and Islamophobia in Britain: The Making of a Muslim Enemy (2018). She is an editor of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism.
