Kurdish Women's Movement

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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 Diyarbakir prison resistance

4. Vejin! - The first bullet

5. Edi 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. Jineoloji: 'A science of woman and life'

PART III: PRACTICE

13. Stateless society

14. OEcalan: Leader, prisoner, comrade

15. Revolutionizing love

16. Mothers

17. Self-defence

18. Martyrs

19. Prisoners

20. Education

21. Media

22. Ecology

23. Mexmur: From displacement to self-determination

24. Bakur: Women against politicide

25. Basur: 'Freedom is more than the absence of dictatorship'

26. Rojava: A women's revolution

27. Resistance or feminicide: Women against Daesh

28. Sengal: From feminicide to women's autonomy

29. Kobane 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

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• Grupos e movimentos revolucionários
• Luta contra o terrorismo
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres
• O feminismo e teoria feminista
• Refugiados e asilo politico
• Marxismo e Comunismo

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