Constructing Female Terrorism

Ariane Bogain is Senior Lecturer in French and Politics at Northumbria University. Her research critically investigates the terrorism discourse in France, focusing on legitimisation of counter-terrorism measures by state authorities, the construction of national identity as a reaction to terrorist attacks, and the role of gender in the construction of French men and women who joined ISIS. Leonie B. Jackson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Northumbria University. She is the author of The Monstrous and the Vulnerable: Framing British Jihadi Brides (2021) and Islamophobia in Britain: The Making of a Muslim Enemy (2018). She is an editor of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism.

• Introduction1. Anti-colonial campaigns: The Kenya Land and Freedom Army (Mau Mau) 1952–60 and Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN) 1954–622. Separatist political violence: The Provisional IRA 1969–97 and the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) 1976–present3. Leftist political violence: women of The Angry Brigade (1970–72) and Action directe (1979–87)4. Jihadist political violence: post-2001 jihadist campaigns in the UK and France6. Ultra-right political violence in the UK and France in the twenty-first century6. At the border of orderConclusion

Constructing Female Terrorism brings important, carefully researched evidence from previously under-explored cases to the question of the public reaction to and reproduction of women’s engagement in political violence, with novel theoretical findings. A must-read in the field.