Women of a non-state nation : the Kurds / edited by Shahrzad Mojab.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mojab, Shahrzad.

Series:

Kurdish studies series ; no. 3.

Kurdish studies series ; no. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Kurdish.

Physical Description:

x, 263 pages : map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers, 2001.

Contents:

The solitude of the stateless: Kurdish women at the margins of feminist knowledge / Shahrzad Mojab

En-gendering nationalism: the 'woman question' in Kurdish nationalist discourse of the late Ottoman period / Janet Klein

Kurdish women in Constantinople at the beginning of the twentieth century / Rohat Alakom

Women and nationalism in the Kurdish republic of 1946 / Shahrzad Mojab

From Adela Khanum to Leyla Zana: women as political leaders in Kurdish history / Martin von Bruinessen

Kurdish migrant women in Istanbul: community and resources for local political participation of a marginalized social group / Heidi Wedel

Kurdish women and self-determination: a feminist approach to international law / Susan McDonald

Medic, mystic or magic? Women's health choices in a Kurdish city / Maria O'Shea

Folklore and fantasy: the presentation of women in Kurdish oral tradition / Christine Allison

Portraits of Kurdish women in contemporary Sufism / Annabelle Bt̲tcher

Western images of the woman's role in Kurdish society / Mirella Galletti

The (re)production of patriarchy in the Kurdish language / Amir Hassanpour.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1568590938

OCLC:

46634064