Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Veiled Threats: Women and Global Jihad

by Mia Bloom
Save 11% Save 11%
Current price ₹2,595.00
Original price ₹2,909.00
Original price ₹2,909.00
Original price ₹2,909.00
(-11%)
₹2,595.00
Current price ₹2,595.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 12-14 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781501777820
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 228
  • Original Price: GBP 22.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 356 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Terrorism, Women's Studies, and Gender Studies

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. Bloom interrogates the prevailing perceptions about women's involvement in violent extremism exclusively as victims: manipulated, drugged, or coerced. Following her pioneering work on women in Bombshell, Bloom lifts the veil of the secret world of women in jihadi groups to provide a nuanced and complex explanation of their motivations and challenge misperceptions about women's agency.

Veiled Threats explores the range of roles of the women involved in jihad--not only across secular and religious groups but within affiliated religious groups--and examines how these extremist groups have used rape as a weapon of war. Bloom explains how women are used and abused, deployed and destroyed, and the many ways in which their roles in terrorism have evolved over the past three decades.

Mia Bloom is the International Security Fellow at New America. She has authored or coauthored more than eighty articles on extremism and several books, such as Small Arms and Dying to Kill, among others. Bloom serves on the board of Women without Borders.

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us