Female suicide bombers - Male suicide bombing? Looking for gender in reporting the suicide bombings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Global Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-48

  Brunner, Claudia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; POLITICAL CONFLICT; VIOLENCE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE; WORLD;

EID: 14844303321     PISSN: 13600826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1360082042000316031     Document Type: Article

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4. PKK = Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan;
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6. See footnote 2.
7. See footnote 2.
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