Women in the Kurdish Movement Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses
This book offers the first historical account of Kurdish women’s politicization in Turkey, starting from the mid-1980s. Çağlayan presents a critical feminist analysis through women’s everyday experiences, incorporating women’s self-narrations wi
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Women in the Kurdish Movement
Handan Çağlayan
Women in the Kurdish Movement Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses
Author Handan Çağlayan Bamberg Otto Friedrich University Bamberg, Germany Translated by Simten Coşar Cornell Institute for European Studies, Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-24743-0 ISBN 978-3-030-24744-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24744-7 Translation from the Turkish language edition: Analar, Yoldaşlar, Tanrıçalar: Kürt Hareketinde Kadınlar ve Kadın Kimliğinin Oluşumu by Handan Çağlayan, © İletişim Yayınları 2007. All Rights Reserved. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To Sevê and Fadile… who represent joie de vivre, hope and resilience… who passed by and away untimely, leaving their smiles behind…
Foreword
This is a vulnerable book.1 It is about a vulnerable subject: Knowledge production about and with Kurdish women who have been politicized in the Kurdish movement in Turkey brings in multiple vulnerabilities. First, Kurdish women activists and politicians already experience vulnerability related to their ethnic, gender, and political identities. The researcher is vulnerable in terms of her academic-cum-political priorities to engage in research in such a field, as well as her feminist methodological preferences in social sciences. The researcher/author has a double responsibility in such a setting of knowledge production: in relation to her partners in the knowledge production process and in relation to her research ethics. This vulnerability certainly extends to the translation process,
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