Women in the Kurdish Movement Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses

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 throughwomen's everyday experiences, incorporating women's self-narrations with her ownautoethnographic reflections. The author provides an account of the socio-politicaldynamics which constrained women's politicization, of the factors and mechanisms whichenabled their political activism, and of the construction of women's political history through their own narrations. Women in the Kurdish Movement is a highly originalcontribution to Kurdish women's political history. It will be key reading for students andscholars 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.