Veiled Threats: Women and Global Jihad

by Mia Bloom

Book Overview

Veiled Threats challenges the idea that women in violent terrorist groups lack agency. Too often, women are assumed to be controlled by men: their fathers, husbands or some other male relative. Mia Bloom contests this narrow understanding. Although extremist groups often control different aspects of women's lives, from their religious obligations or dress, Jihadi women have asserted themselves in myriad ways. The author interrogates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501777823
• ISBN13: 9781501777820
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 222 Pages