The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics / edited by Gültan Kișanak ; translation coordinated by Ruken Isik, Emek Ergun and Janet Biehl.

• Gültan Kișanak -- List of abbreviations -- Translation coordinators' preface -- Preface to the English translation / [Introduction]: Women's organizing in the Kurdish Party tradition / Gültan Kișanak -- 1. "How will you find that many women?" / Aysel Tuğluk -- 2. Mother, child, prison / Burcu C̦elik Özkan -- 3. "We never thought of it that way" / C̦ağlar Demirel -- 4, "Hurry up and fix things" / Diba Keskin -- 5. Never give up / Dilek Hatipoğlu -- 6. "We have your keys, come and get them" / Edibe Șahin -- 7. Women's work 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 Yildirim -- 11. Being a woman is hard, evendangerous / Gültan Kișanak -- 12. "Are men going to walk behind a woman?" / Leyla Güven -- 13. "A lion is a lion, woman or man" / Mukaddes Kubilay -- 14. Nobody's daughter-in-law / Nurhayat Altun -- 15. Women should 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 / Servin Karakoc̦ -- 19. One woman became 80 = [One woman became eighty] / Yildz C̦etin -- 20. "Is Sir Chiefwoman in?" / Zeynep Han Bingöl -- 21. "They've turned it into a women's municipality" / Zeynep Sipc̦ik -- 22. Breaking down the doors / Selma Irmak -- Freedom for Aysel Tuğluk -- Translators and coordinators -- Index.

• Prison writings from twenty-two Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political grounds. 
• "Gültan Kișanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own experiences and collected similar accounts from other Kurdish women, all co-chairs, co-mayors, and MPs in Turkey; all incarcerated on political grounds. The Purple Colour of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind collection of prison writings from twenty-two Kurdish women politicians. Here they reflect on their personal and collective struggles against patriarchy and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey; on the radical feminist principles and practices through which they transformed the political structures and state offices in which they operated. They discuss what worked and what didn't, and the ways in which Turkey's anti-capitalist and socialist movements closely informed their political stances and practices. Demonstrating Kurdish women's ceaseless political determination and refusal to be silenced - even when behind bars - the book ultimately hopes to inspire women living under even the most unjust conditions to engage in collective resistance."--Back cover. 

Ämnesord

Kurdiska flyktingar  (sao)

Kvinnor  (sao)

Women, Kurdish  -- Political activity -- Turkey. (LCSH)

Ethnic relations.  (fast)

Politics and government.  (fast)

Refugees, Kurdish  (LCSH)

Women  (LCSH)

Mellanöstern  -- Kurdistan (sao)

Turkey  -- Ethnic relations. (LCSH)

Turkey  -- Politics and government -- 1980- (LCSH)

Turkey.  (fast)

Since 1980  (fast)

Klassifikation

HQ1726.7 (LCC)

305.409561 (DDC)

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