Women in ISIS – a real threat or innocent victims? Cover Image

Kobiety w strukturach ISIS – realne zagrożenie czy niewinne ofiary?
Women in ISIS – a real threat or innocent victims?

Author(s): Karolina Duchna
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Security and defense, Studies in violence and power
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: ISIS; women; terrorism; extremism; women terrorists; refugee camps

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present the situation of women in the caliphate and in the structures of ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ar. Ad-Dawla al-Islāmiyya fῑal-’Irāq wa aš-Šām) through the prism of Arabic-language media reports published on websites information services. In the article, the author presents the media image of women in ISIS showed by the Arabic and Western media. While some of them assign marginal roles to women as housewives, mothers and wives, and thus present their reality in this caliphate, there are also other media reports focusing on the active involvement of women in the organization’s activities. Most of the articles are from 2019. This is due to the fact that with the fall of the caliphate, many media began to make some kind of accounts and summaries of the activities of the terrorist organization ISIS.

  • Issue Year: 15/2023
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 187-206
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish