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Kurdish Women Through History, Culture and Resistance

Series: Bibliotheca Iranica: Kurdish Studies Series 14
Availability: In stock
Published: 2024
Page #: xxvi + 448
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-56859-371-5
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Kurdish Women Through History, Culture, and Resistance is a study of the lives and struggles of Kurdish women in the past while also envisioning the social, cultural, and sexual transformation of gender relations for a future that is upon us. An interdisciplinary study of, by, and with Kurdish women, this anthology offers a rejuvenated radical analysis of transnational feminism by focusing on the interrelations between social forces and structures that constitute the totality of gender relations in Kurdish society at local, regional, and global levels. Stories of daily encounters of women’s bodies and sexualities with the state, patriarchal relations, religion, borders, and refugee camps is centered in some of the analyses; others explore the voices, images, and writings of women in cinema, songs, poems, folktales, and memoirs. The collective feminist ethos of the book is directed towards overcoming the absences and omissions of Kurdish gender relations in Kurdish Studies and in the study of women and gender relations in the Middle East and North Africa.


The first anthology, Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds, was published twenty-five years ago. The past two decades have witnessed an increase in the knowledge production on Kurdish gender relations, a knowledge production that has been primarily produced by Kurdish women scholars and activists. The chapters in Kurdish Women Through History, Culture, and Resistance are framing this body of knowledge while prefiguring a renewed theoretical and methodological path forward.




author

Shahrzad Mojab

Shahrzad Mojab is professor of Women and Gender Studies and Education at the University of Toronto. She is internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement, and violence on women’s work, learning, and education. Her research focuses on the theorization of Marxism and feminism; intersectionality; capitalist imperialist patriarchy; and the revolts of women, students, and nationalities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). She has published extensively on these topics; her recent books include Marxism and Migration (co-edited with Genevie Ritchie and Sara Carpenter) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); Women of Kurdistan: A Historical and Bibliographical Study (co-authored with Amir Hassanpour) (Transnational Press, 2021); and Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge (co-authored with Sara Carpenter) (Pluto Press, 2017). She is the editor of the Peter Lang book series Kurdish People, History and Politics. In 2023, she created and curated The Archive of Defiance (http://archiveofdefiance.com), in which selected visual materials representing the movement of Woman Life Freedom/Jin Jiyan Azadi in Iran are presented and in which a revolutionary feminist “defiance” constitutes the core theoretical, political, and pedagogical anchor of the archive. She has also archived and curated the experience of women in prison in The Art of Resistance in the Middle East (www.womenpoliticalprisoners.com).

Figures and Tables viii
Acronyms and Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xiv

INTRODUCTION xv
The Making of Gender and the Writing of Defiance: Kurdish Women Through History, Culture, and Resistance
Shahrzad Mojab

SECTION I: THE WRITING OF HISTORY
AND OF THE PRESENT

Chapter 1
Revolutionary Pasts and the Authoritarian Present: Women, Memory, and Resistance in Kurdistan 3
Susan Benson-Sokmen

Chapter 2
Kurdish Women in the Resistant Movements of the Post-1979 Revolution in Iran 32
Marouf Cabi

Chapter 3
Kurdish Women in Turkey’s Labor Movements:
From the 1980s Onward 65
Handan Çağlayan

Chapter 4
A Critical Review of Research on Kurdish Women
in the Diaspora 90
Münevver Azizoğlu-Bazan

SECTION II: VOICE, LANGUAGE, AND LITERATURE

Chapter 5
Taming Voices, Expressing the Self: Kurdish Women
and the Voicing of Pain 123
Marlene Schäfers

Chapter 6
The (Re)production of Patriarchy in the
Kurdish Language 148
Amir Hassanpour

Chapter 7
Uncovering Women’s Voices in the History
Of Kurdish Poetry 195
Farangis Ghaderi

Chapter 8
The Past and the Absences Are Present in Kurdish
Women’s Memoirs 222
Shahrzad Mojab

SECTION III: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND BODY POLITICS THROUGH ART

Chapter 9
The Four Pillars of Loneliness: Women’s Artistic and Cultural Production in South Kurdistan (1970s–2023) 247
Isabel Käser and Houzan Mahmoud

Chapter 10
Performing Gender in Riha’s Kurdish Communities:
The Embodiment of Patriarchal Rule in Govend Dances 279
Sara Islán Fernández

Chapter 11
Cinematic Narratives of Resilience and Resistance:
Learning From Kurdish Women’s Experiences of
War and State Violence 300
Tebessüm Yılmaz

Chapter 12
Between Memory and History: Technologies of Remembrance and the Kurdish Resurgance 326
Nastaran Saremy

SECTION IV: THE KURDISH WOMEN’S MOVEMENT AND TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM

Chapter 13
Internationalism and the Kurdish Women’s
Liberation Movement 349
Dilar Dirik

Chapter 14
The Politics of Anger in Kurdish Women’s Funerals 375
Ruken Isik

Chapter 15
Abolition Feminism in Practice: An Alternative Justice Model of the Kurdish Women’s Movement 396
Yeter Tan

Chapter 16
The Kurdish Women’s Movement in the Diaspora:
Sara Free Women Collective 416
Elif Genc

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 438

List of Books 447

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