following the socio-political challenge of the late 1960s, Western democracies experience a wave of revolutionary violence from which men and women take up as a political tool. Extreme left armed groups are characterised by the remarkable involvement and commitment of women. The climate of the 1970s, resistance and liberation struggles are conducive to the renegotiation of male and female roles. Women are also at the heart of the national liberation project of some Turkish and Kurdish left-wing organisations, still today, as they have been in Latin America or South Asia. Questioning women’s political violence is tantamount to focusing on a phenomenon which is almost exclusively confined to men. However, gender is a confrontational tool to grasp what feminisation does to political violence and its inclusion in the socio-political space. By intersecting the social, political and sexual dimensions, the compendium emancipated by weapons? proposes interdisciplinary readings from the armed struggle to women and revisits the systems of values in which political violence and violence against women are caught.