{"product_id":"women-of-jihad-gender-radicalization-and-the-outsiders-lens-an-analytical-study-of-female-participation-in-jihadist-movements-9798261889533","title":"Women of Jihad: Gender, Radicalization, and the Outsider's Lens.: An Analytical Study of Female Participation in Jihadist Movements","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wayne J. Gombar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Middle East - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWomen of Jihad: Gender, Radicalization, and the Outsider's Lens\u003c\/b\u003e confronts one of the most persistently misunderstood dimensions of modern extremism: women's participation in jihadist movements. Popular narratives tend to oscillate between caricatures-portraying women either as passive victims or as shocking anomalies-while policy responses often rely on fear, symbolism, or assumption rather than evidence. This book rejects both extremes.\u003cbr\u003eWritten from a detached, outside-looking-in analytical perspective, \u003ci\u003eWomen of Jihad\u003c\/i\u003e examines female involvement in jihadist organizations across regions, ideologies, and roles, situating gender within the broader structures of extremist governance, coercion, and survival. Drawing on terrorism studies, criminology, sociology, gender studies, and conflict research, the book systematically dismantles myths without romanticizing participation or excusing harm.\u003cbr\u003eRather than treating women as exceptions, this study treats them as \u003cb\u003eintegral components of extremist systems\u003c\/b\u003e-as facilitators, enforcers, mothers, propagandists, survivors, and, in limited cases, perpetrators of violence. The analysis consistently separates agency from coercion, ideology from behavior, and victimization from responsibility. In doing so, it reveals how jihadist movements exploit gender roles not to advance equality, but to stabilize hierarchy, reproduce ideology, and sustain long-term conflict.\u003cbr\u003eSpanning conceptual foundations, pathways into extremism, organizational roles, regional case studies, questions of violence and accountability, and the complex processes of disengagement and reintegration, this book offers a comprehensive framework for understanding women's participation without collapsing nuance into moral absolutes. Special attention is given to media distortion, policy failure, rehabilitation gaps, and the enduring consequences of intergenerational indoctrination.\u003cbr\u003eCrucially, \u003ci\u003eWomen of Jihad\u003c\/i\u003e does not argue that women are uniformly dangerous-or uniformly innocent. It argues that \u003cb\u003eaccuracy precedes judgment\u003c\/b\u003e, and that security, justice, and prevention depend on role-based, evidence-driven assessment rather than gendered assumption. The result is a work that speaks simultaneously to scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and serious readers seeking clarity in a field too often shaped by fear and simplification.\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when public discourse surrounding extremism has grown louder and less precise, this book offers something rarer: analytical restraint, empirical grounding, and ethical seriousness.\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding women's participation in jihad is not about redefining extremism.\u003cbr\u003eIt is about understanding how extremism actually works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWayne J. Gombar\u003c\/b\u003e is a researcher, analyst, and writer whose work focuses on violent extremism, terrorism studies, and the intersection of ideology, security policy, and social structure. His research interests include radicalization processes, gender and extremism, organizational behavior in militant movements, and the ethical and practical challenges of counterterrorism policy.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on interdisciplinary methods from criminology, sociology, psychology, and conflict studies, Gombar approaches extremism from an outside-looking-in analytical perspective that prioritizes evidence over narrative and proportionality over moral absolutism. His work consistently emphasizes role-based analysis, distinctions between agency and coercion, and the structural dynamics that sustain extremist systems beyond acts of violence alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen of Jihad: Gender, Radicalization, and the Outsider's Lens\u003c\/i\u003e reflects this approach. Rather than treating women's participation in jihadist movements as an anomaly, the book situates gender within broader systems of ideology, control, and survival-offering a framework relevant to scholars, policymakers, and professionals working in security, justice, and prevention.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46860927631511,"sku":"9798261889533","price":3869.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798261889533.webp?v=1769959839","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/women-of-jihad-gender-radicalization-and-the-outsiders-lens-an-analytical-study-of-female-participation-in-jihadist-movements-9798261889533","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}