The Women of Palestine Fighting for Independence

• Authors: Elżbieta Deja

Abstracts

PL

Artykuł ma na celu przedstawienie powodów, dla których kobiety palestyńskie decydują się na udział w bombowych atakach samobójczych. Krótka charakterystyka palestyńskich kobiet-bomb pozwoli odpowiedzieć na pytania: Co popycha kobiety do przeprowadzenia ataków terrorystycznych? Czy to swoista walka o emancypację lub równość płci? Na ile udział w zamachu jest suwerenną decyzją samych kobiet, a na ile stanowią one nowy rodzaj broni i są traktowane instrumentalnie?

EN

The article is going to present the main reasons for which Palestinian women decide to take part in suicide bombing. The brief characteristic of Palestinian female bombers will allow answering the following questions: What makes women to conduct suicide attacks? Is this a kind of fight for emancipation or gender equality? To what extend participating in a terrorist attack is a sovereign decision of a woman and to what extent are they used as a new type of weapon and treated just like a tool?

Keywords

EN

female bombers; IDF; suicide attacks; suicide bombers

• Publisher: European Association for Security
• Journal: Securitologia
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 1 (25)
• Pages: 109-118

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Elżbieta Deja

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski

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