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Defying rules. Defying gender?: Women's resistance to Islamic State

Defying rules. Defying gender?: Women's resistance to Islamic State
Defying rules. Defying gender?: Women's resistance to Islamic State
Through disproportionate restrictions placed on women’s movement and visualization within its “caliphate”, the Islamic State (IS) group enforced its policies of female domesticity and submission. Studies on IS governance of local Iraqi, Syrian and Kurdish women have focused overwhelmingly on their victimization, abuse, and restricted agency. By contrast, this paper uncovers the opportunities, activities, and impacts of individual and collective nonviolent resistance led by local Sunni and Yazidi women. Through endeavors such as personal resilience, individual confrontations, and even group protest, local female civilian women acted against the group’s policies, members, ideology, and expectations of female passivity.
1521-0731
1-24
Vale, Gina
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Vale, Gina
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Vale, Gina (2023) Defying rules. Defying gender?: Women's resistance to Islamic State. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 46 (6), 1-24. (doi:10.1080/1057610X.2020.1816680).

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Abstract

Through disproportionate restrictions placed on women’s movement and visualization within its “caliphate”, the Islamic State (IS) group enforced its policies of female domesticity and submission. Studies on IS governance of local Iraqi, Syrian and Kurdish women have focused overwhelmingly on their victimization, abuse, and restricted agency. By contrast, this paper uncovers the opportunities, activities, and impacts of individual and collective nonviolent resistance led by local Sunni and Yazidi women. Through endeavors such as personal resilience, individual confrontations, and even group protest, local female civilian women acted against the group’s policies, members, ideology, and expectations of female passivity.

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Accepted/In Press date: 15 August 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 September 2020
Published date: 2023

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Local EPrints ID: 472196
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/472196
DOI: doi:10.1080/1057610X.2020.1816680
ISSN: 1521-0731
PURE UUID: 096c08b7-18d4-4431-9141-66ac9f4239e5
ORCID for Gina Vale: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-1417

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Date deposited: 29 Nov 2022 17:33
Last modified: 08 Jan 2026 03:16

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Author: Gina Vale ORCID iD

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