Caron E. Gentry is Lecturer within the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews.  Her work has focused on gender and terrorism for over a decade. Having written on women’s involvement in politically violent groups with articles in various journals her publications also include (with Laura Sjoberg) Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics (Zed Books, 2007) and a co-edited volume, Women, Gender, and Terrorism (University of Georgia Press, 2011). Caron’s current book, Offering Hospitality: Questioning Christian Approaches to War (Notre Dame, 2013), is a feminist political theology on war. Drawing upon both feminist theory and political theory, Caron is currently pursuing a research agenda that examines women’s everyday insecurities in the West and how these impact and are impacted by international security.