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The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement - Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities (Paperback)
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The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement - Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities (Paperback)
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Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities, female fighters, politicians
and activists of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are building a new
political system that centres gender equality. Since the Rojava
Revolution, the international focus has been especially on female
fighters, a gaze that has often been essentialising and
objectifying, brushing over a much more complex history of violence
and resistance. Going beyond Orientalist tropes of the female
freedom fighter, and the movement's own narrative of the 'free
woman', Isabel Kaser looks at personal trajectories and everyday
processes of becoming a militant in this movement. Based on
in-depth ethnographic research in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, with
women politicians, martyr mothers and female fighters, she looks at
how norms around gender and sexuality have been rewritten and how
new meanings and practices have been assigned to women in the quest
for Kurdish self-determination. Her book complicates prevailing
notions of gender and war and creates a more nuanced understanding
of the everyday embodied epistemologies of violence, conflict and
resistance.
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