American and Indigenous Studies Program Presents

The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities

Isabel Käser will join us for a discussion about her new book, The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities. Going beyond Orientalist tropes of the female freedom fighter and unpacking the movement's own discourse and practices around the 'free woman', Isabel Käser looks at personal trajectories and everyday processes of becoming a militant in this movement. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, with women politicians, martyr mothers and female fighters, her book asks how norms around gender and sexuality have been rewritten and how new meanings and practices have been assigned to women in the quest for Kurdish self-determination. During the talk, she will present some of the main themes and findings and discuss the conundrums and challenges she encountered when researching and writing the book.

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For more information, call 860-992-6472, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/87056984787?pwd=SGZNdVRuWjF0dXFiT0kyZitaUzhvdz09.

Time: 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Online Event

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