Female Fighters: Why Rebel Groups Recruit Women for War

Author/Contributor(s):	Wood, Reed M
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	08/27/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Female Fighters explains why some rebel groups deploy women in combat while others exclude women from their ranks, and the strategic implications of this decision. Examining a vast original dataset on female fighters in over 250 organizations, Reed M. Wood argues rebel groups can gain considerable strategic advances by including women fighters.