Tens of thousands of Ukrainian women have taken up arms during the war sparked by Russia’s invasion. Women constitute up to 17 percent of the Ukrainian fighting force.
Author: Mia Bloom
Mia Bloom is professor at Georgia State University. She conducts ethnographic field research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. Bloom has authored five books and 80+ articles on terrorism and violent extremism including Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (2005), Living Together After Ethnic Killing [with Roy Licklider] (2007), Bombshell: Women and Terror (2011) and Small Arms: Children and Terror (2019). Bloom is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has held research or teaching appointments at Princeton, Cornell, Harvard and McGill Universities. Bloom's forthcoming book is Veiled Threats: Women and Jihad.