Women and terrorism / Luisella de Cataldo Neuburger and Tiziana Valentini ; translated into English by Leo Michael Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Cataldo Neuburger, Luisella.

Contributor:

Valentini, Tiziana.

Campling, Jo.

Standardized Title:

Filo di Arianna. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Women terrorists--History.

Women terrorists.

Terrorism--History.

Terrorism.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 178 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Language Note:

Translation of: Il filo di Arianna.

Summary:

This book, which is intended as a contribution to a better understanding of women's participation in terrorism, deals with four main issues: (1) the study of women's participation in violent terrorist movements to try to discover the key to the psychological and sociological interpretation of their involvement in a life experience with which they are not traditionally associated; (2) the different responses to "penitentism" between men and women; (3) the psychological and social interpretation of women's support of armed struggle and an enquiry- through the personal experience of the women terrorists interviewed- into the reasons of women's greater resistance to repentance; (4) the use in the criminal justice system of the leads this enquiry has furnished for prognostic purposes and to predict and create conditions that facilitate repentance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-169) and index.

ISBN:

0312127162

OCLC:

32312510