Women in the Kurdish Movement: Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses

Women in the Kurdish Movement: Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses

Women in the Kurdish Movement: Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses

Women in the Kurdish Movement: Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses

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Overview

This book offers the first historical account of Kurdish women’s politicization in Turkey, starting from the mid-1980s. Çağlayan presents a critical feminist analysis through women’s everyday experiences, incorporating women’s self-narrations with her own autoethnographic reflections. The author provides an account of the socio-political dynamics which constrained women’s politicization, of the factors and mechanisms which enabled their political activism, and of the construction of women’s political history through their own narrations. Women in the Kurdish Movement is a highly original contribution to Kurdish women’s political history. It will be key reading for students and scholars across various disciplines with an interest in gender, political participation, everyday resistance, feminist methodology, nationalism, ethnicity, secularism, social movements, post-colonial studies, and the Middle East.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783030247447
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/21/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 558 KB

About the Author

Handan Çağlayan is a Visiting Scholar, Department of General Linguistics, Bamberg Otto Friedrich University, Germany.

Table of Contents

1. Narrating the Field, Narrating Life.- 2. Kurdish Women as Political Agents: Kurdish Political Movement, Gender Equality and Women’s Freedom.- 3. Kurdish Women in Political Organizations: The Kurdish Movement and pro-Kurdish Political Parties.- 4. Kurdish Women Talk: Narrations through Everyday Life.- 5. Conclusion.



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“This is a powerful book and essential for any research on Kurdish women. A feminist critical inquiry providing invaluable insight into the struggle of Kurdish women challenging the roles imposed on them and transforming their political identities to be at the forefront of the Kurdish political movement.” (Şemsa Özar, Boğaziçi University, Turkey)

“A pioneering monograph recovering Kurdish women’s voices and agency, this is a much-needed critical intervention that breaks the silence prevalent in feminist and Middle Eastern scholarship on Kurdish women. Çağlayan skillfully weaves together the (auto)biographical with the social, and activism with scholarship.” (Metin Yüksel, Hacettepe University, Turkey)

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