Anne Henshaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 218390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Henshaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Henshaw |
| SIGNATURE | HENSHAW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Troy University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9355-3194 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Women without a tactical advantage
Female suicide bombers are increasingly deployed by terror groups, which is often explained by their tactical advantage: women are more likely to reach their targets and tend to generate higher levels of fatalities. However, the women of Boko Haram – the most prolific user of female suicide attackers – lack this tactical advantage. To address this puzzle, we consider the ways in which alternative motivations to deploy female attackers, including …
Norm Entrepreneurship and Gendered Cybersecurity
It could be said that cybersecurity and gendered security are issues that entered international policy discourse around the same time. While both innovations entered high-level consciousness in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as part of a larger rhetorical expansion of security as a concept, the two ideas have taken different trajectories. While cybersecurity has been embraced and institutionalized by the vast majority of coun…
Beyond the Basics
It has become increasingly difficult to deny the political impacts of technology. In this introduction to the special forum, we take stock of the current literature on cybersecurity and international relations, including the emergence of a critical literature in this field. We proceed to argue that critical inquiry can be taken further, especially in light of recent trends in cyber-governance. We situate our work as specifically concerned with th…
Digital Frontiers in Gender and Security
Exploring the digital frontiers of feminist international relations, this book investigates how gender can be mainstreamed into discourse about technology and security.
De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor
Labor history and international relations (IR) each offer insights regarding the extent to which women contribute to non-state armed groups and the value of their labor. Yet questions remain about how agency in joining armed movements – and, conversely, the forced participation of women – are operationalized and even fetishized by observers. Positivist empirical work in IR has operationalized agency and coercion as a dichotomy in gendered wartime…
Women, Consider Crypto
Decentralized finance, including cryptocurrency and other blockchain-based applications, promises participants benefits such as financial freedom, security, privacy, and wealth accumulation. More recently, it has also offered the promise of participation, lowering financial barriers, and empowerment—especially to women, the poor, and those residing in the Global South. I argue that the rise of decentralized finance as an alternative development p…
Feminism
The academic enterprise of feminist Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is first and foremost about interrogating the role of gender in process and outcomes. Insofar as “gender” is also understood to refer to a set of historically and culturally contingent practices that may be associated with sex, feminist work also aligns itself with intersectional understandings that view gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and other categories as interlinked …
Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”
More than 20 years after the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), the United States is still in the process of institutionalizing its strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS). While the Women, Peace, and Security Act (2017) established a legal mandate by which federal agencies are obligated to demonstrate efforts to mainstream gender in foreign policy, timely implementation has been hindered by confusion and disagreement ove…
Gendered labor in the making of United States policy on Women, Peace and Security
Outbidding and Gender
The civil conflict in Colombia has gained attention in part for the inclusion of women in rebel forces and peace negotiations between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Scholarship has often explained the FARC’s decision to mobilize women as both an ideological and tactical move, designed to increase the ranks of the organization and signal commitment to leftist principles. In this paper, I argue that the incorp…
Peace with a Woman’s Face’
The idea that men and women approach conflict resolution differently forms the backbone of the international agenda on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) and is supported by a growing body of scholarship in international relations. However, the role of women who represent insurgent groups in peace talks remains understudied, given the relatively rare appearance of such women in peace processes. The present study examines how men and women from the …
Insurgent Women
Female Combatants in Postconflict Processes
Research on contemporary internal armed conflicts has consistently shown that women are active in most armed insurgencies, in groups with varied ideologies, and in every region of the world. However, scholarship from feminist security studies shows that, not only are women still generally underrepresented in peace processes, but women affiliated with rebel groups in particular are more likely to be excluded from disarmament, demobilization, and r…
Understanding women at war
Recent efforts aimed at understanding women’s contributions to nonstate armed groups have produced large-scale data sets on female combatants (Wood and Thomas 2017) and more limited data on women’s roles as supporters and leaders in armed groups (Henshaw 2016; 2017, Loken 2018). The present study aims to build on this literature by providing new data on the scope of women’s leadership in insurgent groups. While existing quantitative literature ha…
Masculinity and New War
Masculinity and New War: The Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Armed Conflict." Gender & Development, 25(2), pp. 343–344
Why Women Rebel
Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed data on women’s participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel groups. The book provides a theoretical analysis drawing upon both mainstream literature in the social sciences and critical, feminist inquiry on women and political violence to offer a new gen…
Why Women Rebel
Many scholars have sought to understand what drives recruitment in armed rebel groups. While theories focused on grievance and selective incentives have been the subject of a robust body of scholarship, large-N work in this area tends to focus primarily on male recruits, and often utilizes measures that fail to account for the differing motivations of male and female rebels. Moreover, existing studies of the motives of female rebels have been reg…
Where Women Rebel
While a significant literature on women's participation in armed rebel groups exists, much of this work is focused on individual cases or regional comparisons among movements. This has led to a lack of cross-national work on women in insurgencies, and a limited understanding of the extent to which women are engaged in civil conflict internationally. This article introduces new data on women's involvement in seventy-two insurgencies active since 1…
Geographies of Tolerance
Fostering resilience in a changing sea ice context
A grant maker provides insight into how philanthropy can work with Arctic communities experiencing rapid change from the simultaneous impacts of climate change and globalization in the North Pacific. The focus is on the role that philanthropy can play in assisting communities in coping with changing sea ice conditions by recognizing that communities are an integral part of the social-ecological system. The role of resilience and how philanthropic…
Identifying Regional Powers and Their Status
Much of the international relations literature has focused on the most powerful states, although the politics of regions and the role of regional powers have become increasingly salient in the postCold War environment. Many scholars now contend that regional powers are critical, if not central, to our understanding of world politics (Acharya 2007; Lemke 2002; Lake and Morgan 1997; Sbragia 2008). Regional powers are important to our understanding …
Do glaciers listen? Local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination – By Julie Cruikshank
Critical Inuit Studies
Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography. Pamela Stern and Lisa Stevenson, eds. Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2006. 302 pp
Pausing along the Journey
This paper describes the preliminary results of a place-name project being conducted in the Sikusilarmiut land use area of southwest Baffin Island, Canada. Specifically, I explore how Sikusilarmiut toponymy can help inform broader scientific narratives about changing Arctic environments. I discuss how Sikusilarmiut place names reflect Inuit multisensory notions of place and provide insight into the changing movements of people across the land, se…
Polynyas and Ice Edge Habitats in Cultural Context
A combination of paleoclimatic proxies, zooarchaeological data from historic Inuit habitation sites, and Geographic Information System (GIS) studies of modern sea-ice extremes were used to track the changing size and shape in modern times of a polynya situated in outer Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island. From these data, inferences were drawn about historic Inuit settlement patterns and subsistence strategies in the region over the last 500 years. Resu…
Where Women Rebel
While a significant literature on women's participation in armed rebel groups exists, much of this work is focused on individual cases or regional comparisons among movements. This has led to a lack of cross-national work on women in insurgencies, and a limited understanding of the extent to which women are engaged in civil conflict internationally. This article introduces new data on women's involvement in seventy-two insurgencies active since 1…
Why Women Rebel
Many scholars have sought to understand what drives recruitment in armed rebel groups. While theories focused on grievance and selective incentives have been the subject of a robust body of scholarship, large-N work in this area tends to focus primarily on male recruits, and often utilizes measures that fail to account for the differing motivations of male and female rebels. Moreover, existing studies of the motives of female rebels have been reg…
Critical Inuit Studies
Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography. Pamela Stern and Lisa Stevenson, eds. Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2006. 302 pp
Geographies of Tolerance
Understanding women at war
Recent efforts aimed at understanding women’s contributions to nonstate armed groups have produced large-scale data sets on female combatants (Wood and Thomas 2017) and more limited data on women’s roles as supporters and leaders in armed groups (Henshaw 2016; 2017, Loken 2018). The present study aims to build on this literature by providing new data on the scope of women’s leadership in insurgent groups. While existing quantitative literature ha…
Pausing along the Journey
This paper describes the preliminary results of a place-name project being conducted in the Sikusilarmiut land use area of southwest Baffin Island, Canada. Specifically, I explore how Sikusilarmiut toponymy can help inform broader scientific narratives about changing Arctic environments. I discuss how Sikusilarmiut place names reflect Inuit multisensory notions of place and provide insight into the changing movements of people across the land, se…
Female Combatants in Postconflict Processes
Research on contemporary internal armed conflicts has consistently shown that women are active in most armed insurgencies, in groups with varied ideologies, and in every region of the world. However, scholarship from feminist security studies shows that, not only are women still generally underrepresented in peace processes, but women affiliated with rebel groups in particular are more likely to be excluded from disarmament, demobilization, and r…
Women, Consider Crypto
Decentralized finance, including cryptocurrency and other blockchain-based applications, promises participants benefits such as financial freedom, security, privacy, and wealth accumulation. More recently, it has also offered the promise of participation, lowering financial barriers, and empowerment—especially to women, the poor, and those residing in the Global South. I argue that the rise of decentralized finance as an alternative development p…
Outbidding and Gender
The civil conflict in Colombia has gained attention in part for the inclusion of women in rebel forces and peace negotiations between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Scholarship has often explained the FARC’s decision to mobilize women as both an ideological and tactical move, designed to increase the ranks of the organization and signal commitment to leftist principles. In this paper, I argue that the incorp…
Masculinity and New War
Masculinity and New War: The Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Armed Conflict." Gender & Development, 25(2), pp. 343–344
Gendered labor in the making of United States policy on Women, Peace and Security
Peace with a Woman’s Face’
The idea that men and women approach conflict resolution differently forms the backbone of the international agenda on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) and is supported by a growing body of scholarship in international relations. However, the role of women who represent insurgent groups in peace talks remains understudied, given the relatively rare appearance of such women in peace processes. The present study examines how men and women from the …
Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”
More than 20 years after the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), the United States is still in the process of institutionalizing its strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS). While the Women, Peace, and Security Act (2017) established a legal mandate by which federal agencies are obligated to demonstrate efforts to mainstream gender in foreign policy, timely implementation has been hindered by confusion and disagreement ove…
The Mi'kmaq
Location and Appropriation in the Arctic
Palaeoecological Implications of Archaeological Seal Bone Assemblages
In recent years, increasing scientific attention has been paid to sea mammals as biological indicators of Arctic environmental change. The usefulness of animals such as ringed seal (Phoca hispida), harp seal (Phoca groenlandica), bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), and harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) as indicator species is due to the close relationship of their range, reproductive cycles, and life histories to sea ice. The behaviour and distributi…
Polynyas and Ice Edge Habitats in Cultural Context
A combination of paleoclimatic proxies, zooarchaeological data from historic Inuit habitation sites, and Geographic Information System (GIS) studies of modern sea-ice extremes were used to track the changing size and shape in modern times of a polynya situated in outer Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island. From these data, inferences were drawn about historic Inuit settlement patterns and subsistence strategies in the region over the last 500 years. Resu…
Pausing along the Journey
This paper describes the preliminary results of a place-name project being conducted in the Sikusilarmiut land use area of southwest Baffin Island, Canada. Specifically, I explore how Sikusilarmiut toponymy can help inform broader scientific narratives about changing Arctic environments. I discuss how Sikusilarmiut place names reflect Inuit multisensory notions of place and provide insight into the changing movements of people across the land, se…
Do glaciers listen? Local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination – By Julie Cruikshank
Critical Inuit Studies
Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography. Pamela Stern and Lisa Stevenson, eds. Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2006. 302 pp
Identifying Regional Powers and Their Status
Much of the international relations literature has focused on the most powerful states, although the politics of regions and the role of regional powers have become increasingly salient in the postCold War environment. Many scholars now contend that regional powers are critical, if not central, to our understanding of world politics (Acharya 2007; Lemke 2002; Lake and Morgan 1997; Sbragia 2008). Regional powers are important to our understanding …
Fostering resilience in a changing sea ice context
A grant maker provides insight into how philanthropy can work with Arctic communities experiencing rapid change from the simultaneous impacts of climate change and globalization in the North Pacific. The focus is on the role that philanthropy can play in assisting communities in coping with changing sea ice conditions by recognizing that communities are an integral part of the social-ecological system. The role of resilience and how philanthropic…
Geographies of Tolerance
Where Women Rebel
While a significant literature on women's participation in armed rebel groups exists, much of this work is focused on individual cases or regional comparisons among movements. This has led to a lack of cross-national work on women in insurgencies, and a limited understanding of the extent to which women are engaged in civil conflict internationally. This article introduces new data on women's involvement in seventy-two insurgencies active since 1…
Why Women Rebel
Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed data on women’s participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel groups. The book provides a theoretical analysis drawing upon both mainstream literature in the social sciences and critical, feminist inquiry on women and political violence to offer a new gen…
Why Women Rebel
Many scholars have sought to understand what drives recruitment in armed rebel groups. While theories focused on grievance and selective incentives have been the subject of a robust body of scholarship, large-N work in this area tends to focus primarily on male recruits, and often utilizes measures that fail to account for the differing motivations of male and female rebels. Moreover, existing studies of the motives of female rebels have been reg…
Masculinity and New War
Masculinity and New War: The Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Armed Conflict." Gender & Development, 25(2), pp. 343–344
Insurgent Women
Female Combatants in Postconflict Processes
Research on contemporary internal armed conflicts has consistently shown that women are active in most armed insurgencies, in groups with varied ideologies, and in every region of the world. However, scholarship from feminist security studies shows that, not only are women still generally underrepresented in peace processes, but women affiliated with rebel groups in particular are more likely to be excluded from disarmament, demobilization, and r…
Understanding women at war
Recent efforts aimed at understanding women’s contributions to nonstate armed groups have produced large-scale data sets on female combatants (Wood and Thomas 2017) and more limited data on women’s roles as supporters and leaders in armed groups (Henshaw 2016; 2017, Loken 2018). The present study aims to build on this literature by providing new data on the scope of women’s leadership in insurgent groups. While existing quantitative literature ha…
Outbidding and Gender
The civil conflict in Colombia has gained attention in part for the inclusion of women in rebel forces and peace negotiations between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Scholarship has often explained the FARC’s decision to mobilize women as both an ideological and tactical move, designed to increase the ranks of the organization and signal commitment to leftist principles. In this paper, I argue that the incorp…
Peace with a Woman’s Face’
The idea that men and women approach conflict resolution differently forms the backbone of the international agenda on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) and is supported by a growing body of scholarship in international relations. However, the role of women who represent insurgent groups in peace talks remains understudied, given the relatively rare appearance of such women in peace processes. The present study examines how men and women from the …
Feminism
The academic enterprise of feminist Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is first and foremost about interrogating the role of gender in process and outcomes. Insofar as “gender” is also understood to refer to a set of historically and culturally contingent practices that may be associated with sex, feminist work also aligns itself with intersectional understandings that view gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and other categories as interlinked …
Women, Men, Boys, and Girls”
More than 20 years after the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), the United States is still in the process of institutionalizing its strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS). While the Women, Peace, and Security Act (2017) established a legal mandate by which federal agencies are obligated to demonstrate efforts to mainstream gender in foreign policy, timely implementation has been hindered by confusion and disagreement ove…
Gendered labor in the making of United States policy on Women, Peace and Security
Digital Frontiers in Gender and Security
Exploring the digital frontiers of feminist international relations, this book investigates how gender can be mainstreamed into discourse about technology and security.
De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor
Labor history and international relations (IR) each offer insights regarding the extent to which women contribute to non-state armed groups and the value of their labor. Yet questions remain about how agency in joining armed movements – and, conversely, the forced participation of women – are operationalized and even fetishized by observers. Positivist empirical work in IR has operationalized agency and coercion as a dichotomy in gendered wartime…
Women, Consider Crypto
Decentralized finance, including cryptocurrency and other blockchain-based applications, promises participants benefits such as financial freedom, security, privacy, and wealth accumulation. More recently, it has also offered the promise of participation, lowering financial barriers, and empowerment—especially to women, the poor, and those residing in the Global South. I argue that the rise of decentralized finance as an alternative development p…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (13 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)