The Kurdish Women's Movement

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Locations in Kurdish
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: The Kurdistan women's revolution - A social history from below
PART I: HISTORY
1. Mapping the Kurdistan of women
2. The Kurdistan Revolutionaries
3. Berxwedan jiyan e! - The Diyarbak¿r prison resistance
4. Vejîn! - The first bullet
5. Edî bes e! - The dirty war
6. Towards women's autonomy
7. International conspiracy and internal crisis
8. The battle for the PKK's soul
9. Enter Democratic Confederalism
PART II: THEORY
10. 'Struggling woman': Ideology and identity
11. Building 'democratic modernity'
12. Jineolojî: 'A science of woman and life'
PART III: PRACTICE
13. Stateless society
14. Öcalan: Leader, prisoner, comrade
15. Revolutionizing love
16. Mothers
17. Self-defence
18. Martyrs
19. Prisoners
20. Education
21. Media
22. Ecology
23. Mexmûr: From displacement to self-determination
24. Bakur: Women against politicide
25. Bäûr: 'Freedom is more than the absence of dictatorship'
26. Rojava: A women's revolution
27. Resistance or feminicide: Women against Daesh
28. ¿engal: From feminicide to women's autonomy
29. Kobanê did not fall
30. Life after Daesh: Women's solidarity in Manbij
31. War and peace
PART IV: EMPOWERMENT OR REVOLUTION?
32. Two rivers, two freedom agendas?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Dilar Dirik was born in Antakya and grew up in Offenbach am Main. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge. She has written on the Kurdish struggle for a range of publications including openDemocracy and ROAR Magazine. She tweets @Dlrdrk1.