Gendered Terrorism: Radicalisation of Western Women in Islamic State
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore how the gendered recruitment of IS advances the radicalisation process of Western women (those that originate from Europe, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) to support violent extremism. The objectives of this research are: to explore the feminist critique on current theories of radicalisation and terrorism; to investigate the IS terrorist organisation as a case study; to identify the motivating factors that directly link to radicalisation of women in IS; and to investigate women’s agency in the political violence relative to their supportive roles in Islamist violent extremism. This study presents first the background about the issue of women’s radicalisation and then introduces the theoretical framework. This research then provides a background of the case study about the IS particularly on the radicalisation of women to support violent extremism of the Islamic State. The case study reveals that the motivations of women who take part in the IS campaign considerably vary. This research suggests an effective gendered approach that will recognise women’s agency, their varying motivations, and the complex roles they play in the IS operations.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it