Isabel Kaser

Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Going beyond Orientalist tropes of female fighters, this book traces the history, ideology, and everyday practices of the Kurdish Women''s Movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009022095
• Artikelnr.: 70910891

Autorenporträt

Isabel Käser is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and Research Associate at the University of Bern. She gained her PhD at SOAS University of London and has previously worked in journalism and diplomacy, most recently leading the research project 'Art in Peace Mediation' for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. She has lectured at the University of Bern, and the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH), and is currently the Principal Investigator of a collaborative project between the LSE and the UKH entitled 'The Kurdistan Region of Iraq Post-ISIS: Youth, Art and Gender'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The PKK - a woman's party? A history of the Kurdistan women's freedom movement 1978-2020
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.