Western observers and Kurdish nationalists have romanticized the women of Kurdistan by claiming that they enjoy more freedom than their Arab, Persian and Turkish sisters. Kurdish women are, in these narratives, mostly unveiled; they freely associate ...
Western observers and Kurdish nationalists have romanticized the women of Kurdistan by claiming that they enjoy more freedom than their Arab, Persian and Turkish sisters. Kurdish women are, in these narratives, mostly unveiled; they freely associate with men in work, dance, and war, and some appear as rulers of tribes and territories. This book challenges such claims to the uniqueness of the status of Kurdish women by offering a complex picture of their oppression and resistance.
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