Abstract

RIBEIRO, Maria Florencia Guarche  and  GUGLIANO, Alfredo Alejandro. Resisting Is Living. Notes on the Kurdish Women’s Political Struggle for an Anti-Patriarchal Society in the 21st Century. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [online]. 2021, n.125, pp.29-52.  Epub Sep 30, 2021. ISSN 2182-7435.  https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.11960.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the particularities of the women’s movement in Kurdistan and its contribution regarding debates on alternative forms of democracy. We assume that this experience, along with other trajectories identified with decolonial feminism and black feminism, is reshaping the struggle of women as the vanguard of a new type of emancipatory movement. The results of this study indicate that the empowerment and mutual benefit actions promoted by the generation of associative networks, encouraged by the autonomous organization of female guerrilla cadres, altered the self-perception of women in Kurdish communities. As a result, social and political power dynamics previously existing in the region have been modified.

Keywords : Feminism; Kurdistan; political activism; social movements; women.

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