Books

Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity: Feminist and Postcolonial Interventions (with Anwar Mhajne, ed., Oxford University Press, 2024)

Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity offers a new approach to understanding cybersecurity in international relations. As a counterpoint to existing work, which focuses largely on the security of states, private actors, and infrastructure, chapter authors examine how women and communities across the Global South understand "cybersecurity," including what threats and forms of resistance are most important to them. They make the case that policies need to consider individual human rights by putting people's empowerment and wellbeing at their center.

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Digital Frontiers in Gender and Security: Bringing Critical Perspectives Online (Bristol University Press, 2023)

Exploring the digital frontiers of feminist security studies, this book investigates how gender can be mainstreamed into discourse about technology and security. With a focus on technologies including big data, communications technology, social media, cryptocurrency, and decentralized finance, the book explores the ways in which technology presents sites for gender-based violence. Crucially, it examines potential avenues for resistance at these sites, especially with regard to the actions of major tech companies, surveillance by repressive governments, and attempts to use the Global South as a laboratory for new interventions.

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Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars (with Jessica Trisko-Darden and Ora Szekely, Georgetown University Press, 2019)

This work examines the role that women have played in multiple armed groups across contemporary conflicts including the Russia/Ukraine conflict, the Colombian civil war, and the Syrian Civil War and ongoing armed struggles by Kurdish groups. The book draws on personal interviews, archival research, and discourse analysis. #1 selling new release in War & Peace (Amazon.com, Jan. & Feb. 2019).

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Why Women Rebel: Understanding Women's Participation in Armed Rebel Groups (Routledge, 2017) 

From the publisher: Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed data on women’s participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel groups. The book provides a theoretical analysis drawing upon both mainstream literature in the social sciences and critical, feminist inquiry on women and political violence to offer a new gendered theory on why women rebel.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

**Published and pre-publication versions of many of my articles are available through Google Scholar or on my page at Academia.edu. 

“‘Women, Men, Boys, and Girls’: Analyzing the Implementation of Women, Peace, and Security in the United States.” Foreign Policy Analysis (Oct. 2022).

“‘Women, Consider Crypto’: Gender in the Virtual Economy of Decentralized Finance.” Politics and Gender (Forthcoming in print, available online August 2022).

“Gendered Labor in the Making of United States Policy on Women, Peace, and Security: An Interagency Perspective.” International Feminist Journal of Politics (Forthcoming in print, available online Jan. 2022) https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2021.2011762

“Outbidding and Gender: Dynamics in the Colombian Civil War.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (Forthcoming in print, available online May 2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1759266

“‘Peace with a Woman’s Face’: Women, Social Media, and the Colombian Peace Process.” Contexto Internacional 42:3, 515-538. (Open access)

“Female Combatants in Post-Conflict Processes: Understanding the Roots of Exclusion.” Journal of Global Security Studies 5:1, 63-79 (2020).

“Understanding Women at War: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Leadership in Non-State Armed Groups” (with June Eric-Udorie, Hannah Godefa, Kathryn Howley, Cat Jeon, Elise Sweezy, and Katheryn Zhao). Small Wars and Insurgencies 30:6-7, 1089-1116 (2019).

“Data Analysis and Data Visualization as Active Learning in Political Science” (with Scott Mienke). Journal of Political Science Education 14:4, 423-439 (2018).

“Why Women Rebel: Greed, Grievance, and Women in Armed Rebel Groups.” Journal of Global Security Studies 1:3, 204-219 (2016).

“Where Women Rebel: Patterns of Women’s Participation in Armed Rebel Groups 1990-2008.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 18:1, 39-60 (2016).

“Geographies of Tolerance: Human Development, Heteronormativity, and Religion.” Sexuality and Culture 18:4, 959-976 (2014).

“‘An Everyday Affair’: A Deeper Look at the Causes of Sexual Violence.” Journal of Human Security Studies 2:2, 94-112.

Book Chapters and Sections

"Women's Violence in Armed Conflict: Towards Feminist Analysis and Response," Banwel, S., Black, L., Cecil, D.K., Djamba, Y.K., Kimuna, S.R., Milne, E., Seal, L. and Tenkorang, E.Y. (Ed.) The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 233-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-255-620231016

“Women, Peace, and Security: Applications in the Cyber Domain.” 2023. In Andi Melancon and Max Thompson, eds. Women, Peace, and Security in Military Operations. London: Howgate.

“Feminism.” 2023. In Patrick Mello and Falk Ostermann, eds. Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods. Routledge.

“Data Visualization” (with Kirssa Cline Ryckman). 2022. In Mitchell Brown, Shane Nordyke, and Cameron Thies, eds. Teaching Graduate Political Methodology. Edward Elger Publishing.

“Data Visualization.” 2022. In Mitchell Brown, Shane Nordyke, and Cameron Thies, eds. Teaching Undergraduate Political Methodology. Edward Elger Publishing.

“Data Visualization.” 2022. In B. Frey, ed., SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Design, 2d. New York: SAGE.

“Mainstreaming Gender in Research Methods.” 2021. In Jeffrey Bernstein, ed., Teaching Research Methods in Political Science. Cheltenham: Edward Elger Publishing.

“Outbidding and Gender: Dynamics in the Colombian Civil War.” 2021. In Alex Phelan, ed., Terrorism, Gender, and Women: Toward an Integrated Research Agenda. Abingdon: Routledge.

"Gender and Foreign Policy." 2017. In Cameron Theis et al., eds., Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Draft available for download]

"Identifying Regional Powers and Their Status." 2011 (co-authored). In Thomas J. Volgy et al., eds., Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Reports and Working Papers

“Bringing Women, Peace, and Security Online: Mainstreaming Gender in Responses to Online Extremism.” 2021. Global Network on Extremism and Technology.

“Case Study of Child Soldiers in Colombia: Past and Present.” 2019. Report for DoD/Minerva project “Children’s Mobilization into Violent Extremism.”

"Findings from a Cross-National Study on Women in Non-State Armed Groups." 2018. Stability Operations "Lessons Learned" Report. U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute.

"Making Violent Women Visible in the WPS Agenda." 2017. Centre for Women, Peace and Security Working paper series 7/2017. London School of Economics. [Available free online]

Other

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