User:Tyler Durden/sandbox/Women in the Kashmir insurgency
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Women occupy a significant position in the Kashmir insurgency as victims as well as agents.[1]
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- Swati Parashar; Aatish-e-Chinar: In Kashmir Where Women Keep Resistance Alive; p 96- in Women, Gender, and Terrorism, Edited by Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry.
- Seema Shekhawat; Visible in Conflict, Invisible in Peace: Positioning Women in the Militancy in Kashmir; p 100-, Chapter 6 in 'Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace'.
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- ^ Book Reviews—South Asia. Review of 'Gender, Conflict and Peace in Kashmir: Seema Shekhawat, by Saiba Varma. p 553. Quote: "Women describe how they participated in the movement (tehreek) by skillfully performing femininity—by crying or pleading with Indian security forces, and offering cover to militants—in order to aid the armed struggle."