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Author:   Gültan Kışanak ,  Ruken Isik ,  Emek Ergun ,  Janet Biehl
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9780745347097

ISBN 10:   0745347096
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Translation Coordinators’ Preface - Ruken Isik, Emek Ergun, and Janet Biehl Preface to English Edition - Gültan Kışanak Overview: The Growing Struggle for Women's Liberation - Gültan Kışanak 1. How Will You Find That Many Women? - Aysel Tuğluk 2. Mother, Child, Prison - Burcu Çelik Özkan 3. We Never Considered It from That Angle - Çağlar Demirel 4. Hurry up and Fix Things-Don't Let Us Down Before Our Husbands- Diba Keskin 5. I Struggled Hard, But I Never Gave Up - Dilek Hatipoğlu 6. We Have Your Keys. You Can Come and Get Them - Edibe Şahin 7. Women's Worked Viewed as Frivolous - Evin Keve 8. You're Going to Eat with the Men? - Fatma Doğan 9. History Has No Love for Women Who Stop and Keep Quiet - Figen Yüksekdağ 10. Three Times Elected, Three Years Barred from Serving - Gülser Yıldırım 11. Being a Woman is Hard … Even Dangerous - Gültan Kışanak 12. Are Men Going to Walk Behind a Woman? - Leyla Güven 13. Mayor, We Don't Dare Say Anything to These Women Anymore - Mukaddes Kubilay 14. One Must Travel from City to City. Women Can't Do It - Nurhayat Altun 15. Women Should Be the Ones to Handle Finances - Sara Kaya 16. This Woman Is Tough as Nails - Sadiye Süer Baran 17. From Prison to Parliament - Sebahat Tuncel 18. Imprisoned for Providing Services - Selma Karakoç 19. One Woman Became Eighty - Yıldız Çetin 20. Is Sir Chiefwoman in? - Zeynep Han Bingöl 21. They've Turned It into a Women’s Municipality - Zeynep Sipçik 22. Breaking Down the Doors - Selma Irmak Freedom for Aysel Tuğluk Translators and Coordinators

Reviews

'This compelling collection highlights personal experiences of imprisoned Kurdish women politicians and their feminist struggle against gender inequality, patriarchal social structures and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey' -- Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Siena College in Albany, New York 'Takes the reader beyond mere political struggle to a vibrant interconnected memories and inner lives of Kurdish women political prisoners' -- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor at the University of Toronto and co-author of ‘Women of Kurdistan’ 'A powerful testament that a caged bird can still sing, this is an inspiring chorus for people world-wide to join hands and carry forth the fight for freedom, and for life, no matter what the circumstances' -- Alpa Shah, author of the award-winning 'Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas', and Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics

'This compelling collection highlights personal experiences of imprisoned Kurdish women politicians and their feminist struggle against gender inequality, patriarchal social structures and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey' -- Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Siena College in Albany, New York 'Takes the reader beyond mere political struggle to a vibrant interconnected memories and inner lives of Kurdish women political prisoners' -- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor at the University of Toronto and co-author of 'Women of Kurdistan' 'A powerful testament that a caged bird can still sing, this is an inspiring chorus for people world-wide to join hands and carry forth the fight for freedom, and for life, no matter what the circumstances' -- Alpa Shah, author of the award-winning Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas, and Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics 'This important, immensely moving translation is a key resource for anyone wanting to know more about the history of Kurdish women's political organising, adding so much depth to our understanding of how their struggle for gender-based equality and justice transformed each author's life trajectory and Kurdish politics as a whole' -- Isabel Kaser, author of 'The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement'

'This compelling collection highlights personal experiences of imprisoned Kurdish women politicians and their feminist struggle against gender inequality, patriarchal social structures and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey' -- Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Siena College in Albany, New York 'Takes the reader beyond mere political struggle to a vibrant interconnected memories and inner lives of Kurdish women political prisoners' -- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor at the University of Toronto and co-author of 'Women of Kurdistan'

Author Information

Gültan Kışanak is a longtime journalist, politician and anticolonial feminist activist for Kurdish liberation, who was elected to Parliament in 2007 as the MP from Diyarbakır. In 2016 she was arrested and charged with 'being a member of an armed illegal organization', for which she was sentenced to over 14 years imprisonment. Ruken Isik holds a Ph.D. in the field of Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Emek Ergun is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Janet Biehl was the collaborator of the late Murray Bookchin. She translated Revolution in Rojava by Knapp et al. and the memoirs of the Kurdish revolutionary, Sakine Cansiz.

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