Women in the Kurdish Movement: Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses
Çağlayan, Handan; Coşar, Simten
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.
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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2020-11-05
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9783030247461
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24744-7
Dimensions: 210cm x148cm
Pages: 257