Why ISIS Female Suicide Bombers Mean The End of The Caliphate Dream
21 July 2017
As featured in Newsweek
ISIS
Their deployment signals the end of commitment to the core defining feature of their movement: the State project. The backbone of that project was what can be thought of as a "gender binary," in which male and female roles are promoted as polar opposites. This binary pushed male violence, and excluded female violence, which was seen as deeply transgressive.