Reed Wood

Recent media reports, as well as candidates’ personal statements, suggest that hostility and even physical violence against politicians have become increasingly common across many of the world’s most stable and established democracies (Corea Reference Courea2024; Le Monde 2025; Scott Reference Scott2019; Seewer Reference Seewer2025; Stroud Reference Stroud2024).

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Armed rebellions might do well to field women soldiers, for female fighters can play a central role in rebel efforts to cultivate allies abroad. The positive attention given to “badass” Kurdish YPJ (Women’s Protective Units) in Syria and Iraq is a recent case in point, but other examples include rebel movements in El Salvador, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. Scholars Devorah Manekin and Reed M.