Book contents
- The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement
- The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Map
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 The PKK – A Woman’s Party?
- 2 Diyarbakir under Fire: Women at the Barricades
- 3 The Mountain Life: On Learning to Become Free
- 4 Mothers and Martyrs: The Struggle for Life and the Commemoration of Death in Maxmûr Camp
- 5 Unmaking and Remaking Sexuality: Body Politics and the PKK
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
Book contents
- The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement
- The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Map
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 The PKK – A Woman’s Party?
- 2 Diyarbakir under Fire: Women at the Barricades
- 3 The Mountain Life: On Learning to Become Free
- 4 Mothers and Martyrs: The Struggle for Life and the Commemoration of Death in Maxmûr Camp
- 5 Unmaking and Remaking Sexuality: Body Politics and the PKK
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
‘When I struggle for my freedom with women, I feel free and I feel equal. Maybe if we weren’t organised, I wouldn’t feel like that. But freedom is so far away, that I know, we need hundreds of years’ (Ayşe Gökkan, 14 November 2015). We were sitting in the office of KJA, the Congress of Free Women (Kongreya Jinên Azad) in Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish city in Turkey, when Ayşe Gökkan told me what equality and freedom meant to her. Our interview was often interrupted by the war planes roaring overhead and rattling the windows,1 Ayşe’s phone ringing and people walking into her office for a quick consultation.
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- The Kurdish Women's Freedom MovementGender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities, pp. 1 - 41Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021