24 research outputs found
Palestinian Women in Terrorism: A Double-Edged Sword?
Drawing on a decade of research on terrorism in the IsraeliâPalestinian conflict, we show how subjective ârational choicesâ motivate some women to engage in terrorist activism. Focusing on the motives of young women who engage in terrorism is consistent with feminist theoryâs insistence on womenâs agencyâeven at the extremes. In addition to the well-established motivations for terrorism reported in the literature, interviews with young women involved in terrorism reveal mixed personal motives for their gender-defying choices, including thrill-seeking and some conscious rebellion. However, we contend that womenâs subjective rationale for participation in such violent behavior needs to be contextualized. A costâbenefit approach, we maintain, highlights the strategic considerations supporting the deployment of women as combatants by Palestinian terrorist organizations. We argue that the inclusion of women in terrorist activism in the IsraeliâPalestinian conflict exposes a major fault line in attitudes to the role and proper place of women in what remains largely a patriarchal culture. This social ambivalence accounts for why, on all measures, women fare worse than their male counterparts. The implications of the findings for feminist research as well as policy are discussed
Future of the law: Doomsday prophet or optimist? Susskind predicts the end of the professions
Sisters in Terrorism? Exploding Stereotypes
Special Issue: Is There a War on Women or Are Females Fine
The Workers' Compensation system in Victoria: Who takes the blame?by William Glaser and Kathy Laster
Four years after its inception, Workcare, the Victorian Governments' new workers' compensation scheme, has failed to live up to its promise