Women go to war
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This article explores the existing academic debate around gender and its role in conflict. It has been historically believed that women have had a secondary role in the exercise of violence, portraying them as victims rather than perpetrators. There have been attempts to support these claims with psychological studies and gender-biased preconceptions. For this reason, the approach sustained in this article also refers to psychological studies but focusing on studies of internal armed conflicts in which women have had prominence. The article aims to support the thesis that women are as violent as men. This argument is based on the proven and active participation of women as soldiers in armed conflicts performed throughout the post-Cold War conflicts and the different types of violence they perpetrated. The conflict in Syria will be the analyzed as a case study to prove this thesis.
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