Women in the Kurdish Movement: Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030247461)

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.

Author: Handan Çağlayan
ISBN-10: 3030247465
ISBN-13: 9783030247461
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2020
Pages: 257
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.66d