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Kurdish women (Kurdish: ژنانی کورد, romanized: Jinên Kurd) have traditionally played important roles in Kurdish society and politics. [1] In general, Kurdish women's rights and equality have improved dramatically in the 21st century due to progressive movements within Kurdish society.
1 lis 2023 · The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement is a powerful and illuminating account of the Kurdish women’s decades-long struggle for freedom and equality in Kurdistan.
14 maj 2021 · „Jin, jiyan, azadî” (Women, life, freedom) is a well-known Kurdish slogan applied especially by Kurds in Turkey and Syria to promote Kurdish women’s military struggle as well as political and social participation in the societies of Kurdistan which is today a part of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
26 sie 2022 · I show how wherever the party holds power, women become the markers of “freedom” and demarcate the boundaries between “us”—a gender-equal society based on radical democracy—and “them”—the barbaric other: ISIS, the Turkish and Syrian regimes, and the racist and capitalist world order.
The exhibition shows women from all age groups and all Kurdish areas in a variety of professions, paid or unpaid: from beekeepers to political leaders, from kickboxers to lawyers, from seasonal laborers to bobcat drivers.
6 lis 2023 · The murders of Jina Amini and Armita Geravand have drawn global attention to plight Kurdish women in Iran, where they are forced to endure the double-edged sword of gender-based oppression and ...
Standing in contrast to the (also problematic) representation of the successful, conventionally attractive, Westernized Istanbulite corporate woman on TV, the stubborn, yet powerless village woman pops up in soap operas as the only state-approved representation of Kurdish womanhood.
