Amor fati: Terrorist Women

Abstract

Theparticipationofwomeninterroristactivities(fromtheRussianproto-anarchiststothe present Islamic suicides, or those of revolutionary violence, ideological, ethnic, religious or nation- alist) can be problematized resorting to Zeitgeist concept due to conditioning imposed by the time and cultural space where each experience is unfold. Regularities and exceptional cases are analysed, such as the Japanese Red Army, unique founded and led by a woman, Fusako Shigenobu, and the Baader-Meinhof, unique and temporarily driven only by women.