Female Fighters: Why Rebel Groups Recruit Women for War

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Notes

1 See Cheryl Hendricks, Gender and Security in Africa: An Overview (Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2011).

2 See Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).

3 See, for example, Isabel Dulfano, ‘Knowing the Other/Other Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Feminism, Testimonial, and Anti-Globalization Street Discourse,’ Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 16, no. 1 (2017): 82–96 and Desiree Lewis, ‘African Feminisms,’ Agenda 16, no. 50 (2011): 4–10. Notably, in Dulfano’s description of indigenous feminism, a violent revolution or overthrow of the system would be counterintuitive to the values of indigenous feminism. Her work is thus not being referenced here to support the active participation of women in combat, but rather to problematise Wood’s depiction of what a feminist agenda might be.