Kurdish Women's Movement
Kurdish Women's Movement The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of the most exciting revolutionary experiment in the world today: Rojava. But while striking images of Kurdish women in desert…
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Kurdish Women's Movement
The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of the most exciting revolutionary experiment in the world today: Rojava. But while striking images of Kurdish women in desert fatigues proliferate, a true understanding of the women's movement remains elusive.Taking apart the superficial and Orientalist frameworks that dominate, Dilar Dirik offers instead an empirically rich account of the women's movement in Kurdistan. Forged over decades of struggle, most recently in the fight against ISIS, Rojava embodies a radical commitment to ecology, democracy and gender equality.
Going beyond abstract ideas, Dirik locates the movement's culture and ideology in its concrete work for women's liberation and radical Drawing on original research and ethnographic fieldwork, she surveys the movement's historical origins, ideological evolution, and political practice over the past forty years.