ABSTRACT
This chapter establishes that women are inspired by complex motives and very often, by the same nationalistic and/or militaristic zeal that drives men into committing violence. It argues that men make wars and women make peace is highly gendered and inaccurate. This is especially visible in cases where women have made informed choices about joining armed groups as combatants. To not accord due recognition to these women as warriors and militants for political or religious causes. The chapter also argues that why a man took up arms or his motivations for committing suicide bombing, whether he was raped, humiliated, a social pariah or was thinking about the grandeur of an afterlife. People assume that he had political issues to settle. Feminism's commitment to uncovering silences and marginalised experiences is never more tested than in its efforts to understand 'people' and specifically women and their choices in the politics of injury.
