The Jihad Feminist Dynamics of Terrorism and Subordination of Women in the ISIS

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  • Joseph Makanda University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

https://doi.org/10.17583/generos.2019.3814

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The increasing embeddedness of the jihad feminist within the Islamic State’s (ISIS) operations is eliciting works on the role of women in terrorism. However, there is yet to be a more constructive analysis that adequately accounts for the luring of Muslim women into the ISIS as a justification of the patriarchal beliefs and oppressive social systems. This paper is among the first attempts to draw on the Jihad Feminism Theory (JFT) to develop a conceptual discourse that explains the causal relationship between jihad feminist fighters and promotion of patriarchal practices and beliefs within the ISIS. Far from standing against any forms of Western feminization- as espoused by the ISS- , the paper argues that jihad feminism has further subverted Muslim women to sedentary roles within the ISIS as a way of sustaining the organisations’ operations and existence.

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2019-06-25

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Makanda, J. (2019). The Jihad Feminist Dynamics of Terrorism and Subordination of Women in the ISIS. Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 8(2), 135–159. https://doi.org/10.17583/generos.2019.3814

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