Terrorism and gender stereotypes
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Terrorism, gender stereotypes, women suicide bombersAbstract
Research and discussions on terrorism rarely take up the issue of gender. The idea that women only hold a supportive role in the terrorism, at most, reflects certain gender stereotypes which associate women with tenderness, compassion, sensibility, love, submission, and care. These type of stereotypes construct and ideal of an apolitical women, in which the labor division is based upon biological differences (women are more able to do certain tasks than others), but in which the primary role of women is, in the end, become a mother and wife instead of developing an identity. In accepting the above mentioned stereotypes, women terrorist then become an anomaly, an irrational subject, especially women Islamic suicide bombers.
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