Publications

The involvement of women in suicide bombings invites a host of operational, tactical, psychological, and sociological questions as to how much this phenomenon shares or departs from the general phenomenon of suicide terrorism. Is there a distinct category of female suicide terrorism? In addition, how much is this gender-related phenomenon in fact a function of gender-related issues? More specifically, to what extent is feminism on the agenda of the women themselves or those who send them? Are these bombers in fact dying for equality? Alternatively, is this feminist agenda primarily a Western prism artificially imposed on a non-Western context?