ATLANTA — Georgia State University Distinguished University Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies; and Transcultural Conflict and Violence Faculty Member, Dr. Mia Bloom has announced her upcoming book Veiled Threats: Woman and Global Jihad.
Veiled Threats challenges the idea that women in violent terrorist groups lack agency. Too often, women are assumed to be controlled by men: their fathers, husbands or some other male relative. Bloom contests this narrow understanding. Although extremist groups often control different aspects of women’s lives, from their religious obligations or dress, Jihadi women have asserted themselves in myriad ways. The author 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 motivation 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 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.
Veiled Threats: Woman and Global Jihad is currently available for pre-order and expected Winter 2024. Published by Cornell University Press, readers can expect to learn more on a “topic that is often discussed in the news but less so academically.”
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