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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 43–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
... work to create the figure of the “Kurdish woman.” Instead of falling into the trap of Orientalist constructions of womanhood, Kurdish diasporas imagine “Kurdish woman” as a way to challenge nation-state assimilation projects and erasure by practicing identity at the intersections of ethnicity, religion...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in the constitution of urban lives. Taking a structuralist position, she argues that socioeconomic concerns determine the extent to which migrants enliven their cultural identities or assimilate into the mainstream Turkish culture. For one, they speak Kurdish less but still maintain an idea of “we the Kurds...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 357–378.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Nadje Al-Ali; Mashuq Kurt Abstract This article explores the complex and intersectional identities and positionalities of Kurdish Islamist women activists in Turkey in the context of heightened violence and tensions linked to the ongoing Turkish-Kurdish conflict. While both female Islamist...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 69–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of Khadivi, a second-generation immigrant geographically and generationally distant from her Kurdish roots, contribute to Kurdish literature and literary expressions. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 Kurdish identity abjection...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 430–432.
Published: 01 November 2023
... differences and similarities in our stories. I started to embrace my Kurdish identity later in my life simply because I had been surrounded in my formative years by an education system that taught me how to be a good Turk. The book touched me on a personal level. It helped me revisit my own experiences...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the Kurdish issue. It is especially remarkable that Marshall does not acknowledge ethnic discrimination when she discusses gender inequality as more severe in the “East and South East” of Turkey (54–59), a seemingly geographic term that actually refers to Kurdish identity while denying its existence, which...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 58–85.
Published: 01 March 2007
...; Sheikhmous 2000); the role of the media in the mobilization of nationalism in the Kurdish diaspora (Hassanpour 2003); and identity formation among the first generation of the Kurdish community, for instance, in Britain (Griffiths 2002) or Sweden (Alinia 2004). There are two studies, in English...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2017
... assassination in Paris, took place in Berlin, where she tried to mobilize the Kurdish diaspora to support the Kurdish prisoners and activists: Our Kurdish identity and language already exist, whether the Turkish state accepts it or not. But our fight is not just against the power of the state. It is also...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 433–435.
Published: 01 November 2023
... names and first-person perspectives), they are also the continuing expressions of collective identities and inherited traditions. Schäfers’s research takes Kurdish society not as a mass accumulation of individual identities but as a relational, collective identity, a dynamic one in the process of change...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., urban-rural dynamics, and knowledge production. Her Ph.D. thesis on resistance and the making of collective identity in Iraqi Kurdistan was published in 2003 by the European Centre for Kurdish Studies in Berlin. Her monograph, Brave men, pretty women? Gender and symbolic violence in Kurdish urban...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 337–358.
Published: 01 November 2022
... but through praising the identical military roles of men and women—a metric that becomes established as the standard of “equality.” Kurdish women’s struggle is incorporated in a liberal women’s rights discourse, in the same way as in the Afghan and Iraqi cases, rendering their history and the specific...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Marlene Schäfers Abstract Women’s rights and human rights projects in Turkey and elsewhere routinely construe and celebrate subaltern voice as an index of individual and collective empowerment. Through an ethnographic study of Kurdish women singers’ ( dengbêj s) efforts to engage...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 147–151.
Published: 01 November 2005
... Nina Laven, University of Michigan Most recent ethnographic studies of Kurdish populations have, out of necessity, focused on the dynamics of Kurdish diasporic identities in Turkey, Germany, Sweden, Georgia, and other countries outside of the re- gion known as Kurdistan (Mingle 2003; Saatci...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the conflict to economic factors only. It is one that describes an “East” in destitute circumstances. Yet the switch in identities in thinking of a potential solution to the conflict is rather sudden: “Well, the solution, they want to establish a separate Kurdish state, I think that’s also why this conflict...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 46–72.
Published: 01 November 2005
... with the Kurdish ethnic minority, in that both Kurdish separatism and Islamist activism threaten the establishment’s commitment to Turkey’s identity as laicist, Westernizing, ethnically and religiously homogenous nation-state. Furthermore, the Kavakçı aff air 48  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 408–413.
Published: 01 November 2022
... can be retold in stories of agency, dignity, courageous tactics, and new identities that should be met with recognition, redress, and reintegration. The next essay, “Kurdish Women Challenges and Struggle at the Time of Conflict and Post-conflict: An Exploratory Research Study of Status of Kurdish...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2017
...-monitors-must-be-allowed-to-access-detainees-amid-torture-allegations . Özsoy Hişyar . 2010 . “ Between Gift and Taboo: Death and the Negotiation of National Identity and Sovereignty in the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey .” PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin . Attending to the irony...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 144–147.
Published: 01 November 2005
... Nina Laven, University of Michigan Most recent ethnographic studies of Kurdish populations have, out of necessity, focused on the dynamics of Kurdish diasporic identities in Turkey, Germany, Sweden, Georgia, and other countries outside of the re- gion known as Kurdistan (Mingle 2003; Saatci...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 306–322.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Edith Szanto Abstract During the onslaught of the Islamic caliphate on Kobanî, Syria, media outlets across the globe broadcast pictures of brave and often unveiled Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a quintessentially male force of destruction. The images...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 November 2015
... was committed to Özal’s economic and political policies. The AKP won the general election in 2002, tolerated by nearly every segment of society, including the Kurdish and Turkish oppositions and liberal-leftist intellectuals. In 2007 and 2010 the party expanded its powers by referendum, and in 2010 Prime...