Women of Komala : Gender and Revolution in Iranian Kurdistan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karimi, Fatemeh.

Contributor:

Hodgkin, Katharine.

Biehl, Janet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Kurdish.

Kurds--Politics and government.

Kurds.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2025.

Summary:

The first comprehensive study of women guerrillas in Iranian Kurdistan.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

PART I: Kurdish Women in Revolution: The Path to Engagement

1. Between Repression and Deprivation: Women Under the Pahlavi Dynasty

2. Women's Subordination in Kurdish Society

PART II: Militant Trajectories Within Komala from the Revolution to 1981

3. The Eruption of Kurdish Women into Organized Political Life

4. The Obstacles to Women's Political Participation

5. The Socio-Political Activities of Female Militants

6. Becoming a Peshmerga Under State Repression

PART III: Patriarchy in the Lives of the Komala Peshmerga, 1981-91

7 Peshmerga Women and the Problems of Integration

8. Bodily Discipline and the Peshmerga

9. Family Life Within the Organization

10. The Disappearance of Peshmerga Women

Conclusion

Appendix 1: List of Women in Komala Killed During the 1980s

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7453-5081-X

0-7453-5083-6

OCLC:

1520916253