Meredith Tax

A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State

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Produktbeschreibung

A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic State

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bellevue Literary Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781942658108
• ISBN-10: 1942658109
• Artikelnr.: 43894109

Autorenporträt

Meredith Tax (September 18, 1942 – September 25, 2022) was an international women’s rights activist and founding president of Women’s WORLD, a global free speech network of feminist writers, as well as international board chair of the Centre for Secular Space and cofounder of the PEN American Center’s Women’s Committee and International PEN Women Writers’ Committee. She was also a frequent contributor to The Nation and the author of many seminal books, including A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary of Organizational Names
Introduction: A Road Unforeseen
1: The Kurds
2: Separated at Birth
3: Insurrection and Genocide
4: The People Take Up the Struggle
5: Kurdish Women Rising
6: Democratic Autonomy in Turkey and Syria
7: The Battle of Kobane and Its Backlash
8: The Birth of Daesh
9: Daesh vs. Kobane
10: War and Peace in Turkey
Coda: Some Questions Remain
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index