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, these women are assumed to be controlled by men: their fathers, their husbands, or some other male relative. Mia Bloom contests this narrow understanding. Although extremist groups often control different aspects of women's lives, including their religious obligations or dress, jihadi women have asserted themselves in myriad ways...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501777815
• ISBN13: 9781501777813
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 228 Pages