This text analyses a phenomenon of international concern: the participation of women in subversive terrorist movements. It deals with four main issues: 1. women's participation in violent terrorist movements to discover the key to the psychological and sociological interpretation of their involvement in a life experience they are not traditionally associated with; 2. the different responses to "penitentism" between men and women; 3. the psychological and social interpretation of women's support of armed struggle and an inquiry - through the personal experience of the women terrorists interviewed - into the reasons for women's greater resistance to repentance; 4. the use of the leads this inquiry has furnished for prognostic purposes and to predict and create conditions that facilitate repentance.