Miranda Alison

Biographic Data

ID4389751
NAMEMiranda Alison
GIVEN NAMESMiranda
FAMILY NAMEAlison
SIGNATUREALISON M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sheffield
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS115
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX3

  • Women, Gender, and Terrorism

    Miranda Alison, Laura Sjoberg et al.BOOKWomen, Gender, and Terrorism2011

  • Women, Gender, and Terrorism

    Alisa Stack, Miranda Alison et al.BOOKWomen, Gender, and Terrorism2010

  • Women and Political Violence

    Miranda Alison, Miranda H AlisonBOOKWomen and political violence2009

    This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants’ involvement in ethno-national conflicts. Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways in which women have traditionally been depicted. Whereas women have predominantly been seen as victims of conflict, this book acknowledges the reality of women as active combatants. Indeed, female…

  • Wartime sexual violence

    Open AccessMiranda AlisonARTICLEReview of International Studies2007Cited by: 25

    This article examines wartime sexual violence, one of the most recurring wartime human rights abuses. It asserts that our theorisations need further development, particularly in regard to the way that masculinities and the intersections with constructions of ethnicity feature in wartime sexual violence. The article also argues that although women and girls are the predominant victims of sexual violence and men and boys the predominant agents, we …

  • Women as Agents of Political Violence

    Open AccessMiranda AlisonARTICLESecurity Dialogue2004Cited by: 64References: 3

    This article challenges the idea that women are necessarily more peaceful than men by looking at examples of female combatants in ethno-nationalist military organizations in Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland. Anti-state, ‘liberatory’ nationalisms often provide more space (ideologically and practically) for women to participate as combatants than do institutionalized state or pro-state nationalisms, and this can be seen in the cases of the LTTE in Sr…

  • Bitter Dawn

    Open AccessMiranda AlisonARTICLENations and Nationalism2004

  • Cogs in the wheel? Women in the liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam

    Miranda AlisonARTICLECivil Wars2003Cited by: 26References: 3

    This article examines women's involvement as combatants in the Sri Lankan Tamil guerrilla organisation the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It addresses women's motivations for choosing to join the organisation, then examines the debate over the LTTE's brand of nationalist feminism before looking at how women's experiences in the movement have affected their views on gender in society. The article hopes to shed some light on the feminist …