The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice

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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 Diyarbakır prison resistance
	4. Vejîn! – The first bullet
	5. Edî 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. Jineolojî: ‘A science of woman and life’
Part III: Practice
	13. Stateless society
	14. Öcalan: Leader, prisoner, comrade
	15. Revolutionizing love
	16. Mothers
	17. Self-defence
	18. Martyrs
	19. Prisoners
	20. Education
	21. Media
	22. Ecology
	23. Mexmûr: From displacement to self-determination
	24. Bakur: Women against politicide
	25. Başûr: ‘Freedom is more than the absence of dictatorship’
	26. Rojava: A women’s revolution
	27. Resistance or feminicide: Women against Daesh
	28. Şengal: From feminicide to women’s autonomy
	29. Kobanê 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
Index