Game changers: Kurdish women in peace and war

• Autores: Ofra Bengio
• Localización: Middle East Journal, ISSN 0026-3141, Vol. 70, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 30-46
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article argues that Kurdish society historically enabled the rise of charismatic women. More recently, upheavals brought by the so-called Arab Spring have acted as a catalyst for Kurdish women to improve their social standing. Along with gains made by Kurds in creating new autonomous spaces, the advancement of Kurdish women constitutes a double revolution that shows the feminist and nationalist agendas can be complementary, and not in conflict as they have for the greater part of modern history.