Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence
by Nimmi Gowrinathan, from Beacon Press: Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence
“Violence, for me, and for the women I chronicle in this book, is simply a political reality.”
An urgent corrective to the erasure of the female fighter from narratives on gender and power, demanding that we see all women as political actors.
Additional reading:
Radicalizing Her on bookshop.org
Gowrinathan’s Deviarchy.com: “Devi – Archy: Drawing on the symbol of the goddess Devi as embodying both strength and consciousness to challenge multiple forms of rule.”
The City College of New York’s Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative / beyondidentity.org
Guernica Magazine’s Female Fighters series
Adi Magazine: “So often, there is a vast gulf between the people most affected by policies and those making the decisions, leading to dangerous misunderstandings and flawed interventions. Through narrative journalism, experimental essays, fiction, poetry, commentary, and art, Adi celebrates the conversations often marginalized from mainstream Western debates on policy, creating a space for nuanced exploration and insisting that policy reflects lived experiences.”
