From its inception, the "War on Terror" has been a heavily gendered endeavour. A careful examination of counter-terrorism campaigns outside the current "War on Terror," reveals that such national security efforts also have a complex, but often unexplored, relationship to gender. This edited volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to consider, from a human rights perspective, the many ways in which gender interacts with counter-terrorism and national security efforts by modern states.

Introduction Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Jayne C. Huckerby Part 1: Gendered Erasures in Counter-Terrorism 1. Gendered Erasure in The Global "War on Terror": An Unmasked Interrogation, Ramzi Kassem 2. Gender and Counter-Radicalization: Women and Emerging Counter-Terror Measures, Katherine E. Brown 3. Gender, Terror, And Counter-Terrorism: Muslim American Youth Activism and Disappeared Rights, Sunaina Maira 4. Missing Indicators, Disappearing Gender: Measuring USAID's Programming to Violent Counter Extremism, Margaret L. Satterthwaite Part 2: Gender Narratives in Counter-Terrorism 5. Unpacking The Trafficking-Terror Nexus, Jayne C. Huckerby 6. Feminism As Counter-Terrorism: The Seduction of Power, Vasuki Nesiah 7. Muslim Fundamentalism" And Human Rights In An Age Of Terror And Empire, Amna Akbar and Rupal Oza Part 3: Toward a Gender Account of Counter-Terrorism 8. Soft Measures, Real Harm: Somalia and The U.S. "War On Terror", Lama Fakih 9. When Are Women's Rights Human Rights in Pakistan?, Amina Jamal 10. Close Encounters of the Female Kind in the Land of Counter-Terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin 11. Equal Opportunity Terrorism: Women Terrorists in Comparative Perspective, Margaret Gonzalez-Perez