2015, Haras Rafiq and Nikita Malik, Caliphettes: Women and the Appeal of the Islamic State (London: Quilliam Foundation), quoted in e.g. 2017, Philip Seib, As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance (Cambridge University Press, →ISBN), page 99
2015 December 29, Simone Roworth, Australia: Editors' Picks for 2015[:] Australia's Caliphettes, Canberra, The Strategist, quoted in 2016, Mark Silinsky, Jihad and the West: Black Flag over Babylon, Indiana University Press (→ISBN), page 95
2015, Paul Moorcraft, The Jihadist Threat: The Re-conquest of the west?, Pen and Sword (→ISBN), page 121:
The same can be said for impressionable young girls, the 'caliphettes'. Some are devout – most teenage girls want to fixate on something that explains the meaning of the universe. Some are attracted by the grooming on social media – especially the young Mujahedin who preen for the girls. They can be paraphrased as believers or Beliebers.
2017, Pam Nilan, Muslim Youth in the Diaspora: Challenging Extremism Through Popular Culture, Taylor & Francis (→ISBN), page 159:
Some claim significant IS female figures like the Australians described above have created 'jihadi girl power subculture', in which becoming a ‘caliphette’ is empowering (for example Pandith and Havelicek 2015). Yet this seems a large claim. It is quite evident that the women's celebratory blogs are carefully crafted for propaganda purposes. There is little information given about the actual conditions experienced by women from Western countries under the IS caliphate, and [...]
