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"'Raise your voice!' and 'Speak up!' are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that all who speak do so for themselves, and that doing so will lead to empowerment, healing, and reconciliation. Marlene Schäfers's Voices that Matter reveals where such assumptions fall short, demonstrating that "raising one's voice" is, in some contexts, an endeavor full of anxieties, struggles, and discontents. In its attention to the voice as form, this book examines not only what voices say, but also how they do so. By focusing on the social labor that voices carry out as they travel, vibrate, and produce sound, Schäfers shows that where new vocal practices arise, they can produce new selves and practices of social relations. Few examples bring this into relief as effectively as the Kurdish context. Written texts have existed mostly on the margins of Kurdish popular culture, whereas oral genres have a long, rich legacy. As Kurdish voices gain increasing moral and political value as metaphors of empowerment, representation, and resistance, these genres are rapidly changing. As she traces the transformations in how Kurdish women relate to and employ their voices, Schäfers illustrates that "gaining voice" is no straightforward path to liberation, especially when one's voice can be selectively appropriated in empty displays of pluralist representation"--

Women, Kurdish --- Kurds --- Singing --- Social conditions --- Civil rights --- Songs and music --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects.

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'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several ‘honor’-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du’a Khalil Aswad, and campaigns against 'honor'-based violence by Kurdish feminists have drawn international attention to this phenomenon within Kurdish communities. Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage provides a description of ‘honor’-based violence that focuses upon the structure of the family rather than the perpetrator’s culture. The author, Joanne Payton, argues that within societies primarily organized by familial and marital connections, women’s ‘honor’ is a form of symbolic capital within a ‘political economy’ in which marriage organizes intergroup connections. Drawing on statistical analysis of original data contextualized with historical and anthropological readings, Payton explores forms of marriage and their relationship to ‘honor’, sketching changing norms around the familial control of women from agrarian/pastoral roots to the contemporary era.

Marriage --- Kinship --- Honor killings --- Family violence --- Women, Kurdish --- Economic aspects --- Violence against --- Social conditions. --- Marriage, politics, violence against women, gender, Kurdistan region of Iraq, Iraq, honor, honor crimes, women, girls, female sexual autonomy, moral codes, violence against girls, social taboos, sexuality, Kurdish women, feminism, Kurdish feminists, Kurdish communities, history, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology of the family, honor killings, family structure, violence, Kurdistan.

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Women, Kurdish --- Kurdish women --- Cansız, Sakine. --- Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê. --- Kongreya Azadî û Demokrasiya Kurdistan --- Partiya Karkere Kürdistan --- PKK --- Kurdish Workers' Party --- Worker's Party of Kurdistan --- Apocular (Organization) --- Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans --- Partiya Karkerén Kürdistan --- Ergatiko Komma tou Kourdistan --- Kurdistan Isci Partisi --- Partito kurdo dei lavoratori --- Partito comunista kurdo --- Partî Kirêkaranî Kurdistan --- KİP --- Ḥizb al-ʻUmmāl al-Kūrdistānī

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Bitter has delivered inspirational but often tragic stories. This memoir by a Kurdish revolutionary describes the struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, against the Turkish state. She co-founded the PKK in 1974 and dedicated her life to its cause. On the January 9, 2013 she was assassinated in Paris in circumstances that remain officially unresolved. This describes the first part of her life, leading up to her arrest in 1979, penned as dramatic events unfolded against the backdrop of the Turkish revolutionary left. --Publisher's description.

Women, Kurdish. --- Women, Kurdish --- Kurdish women --- Cansiz, Sakine --- Kurdistan --- Cansız, Sakine. --- Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê. --- Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê --- Partiya Karkere Kürdistan --- PKK --- Kurdish Workers' Party --- Worker's Party of Kurdistan --- Apocular (Organization) --- Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans --- Partiya Karkerén Kürdistan --- Ergatiko Komma tou Kourdistan --- Kurdistan Isci Partisi --- Partito kurdo dei lavoratori --- Partito comunista kurdo --- Partî Kirêkaranî Kurdistan --- KİP --- Ḥizb al-ʻUmmāl al-Kūrdistānī --- Kongreya Azadî û Demokrasiya Kurdistan --- Turkey. --- Anatolia --- Anatolie --- Ānātūl --- Asia Minor --- Asia Minore --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Turk Uls --- Buturuki --- Cộng hoà Thỏ̂ Nhĩ K --- Dēmokratia tēs Tourkias --- Devlet-i Aliye Osmaniye --- Durka --- Durkka dásseváldi --- Gweriniaeth Twrci --- Jamhuri ya Uturuki --- Jamhuuriyada Turki --- Jumhūrīyah al-Turkīyah --- Komara Tirkiyey --- Lýðveldið Turkaland --- Lýðveldið Tyrkland --- Orílẹ̀-èdè Olómìnira ilẹ̀ Túrk --- Osmanlı İmparatorluğu --- Osmanskai͡a Imperii͡ --- Ottoman Empire --- Pobblaght ny Turkee --- Poblacht na Tuirce --- Repóbblica d'l Turch --- Repubbleche de Turchie --- Repubblica di Turchia --- Republic of Turkey --- Republic of Türkiye --- República da Turquia --- Republica de Turchia --- Republica de Turquía --- Republica Turcia --- Republiek Turkeye --- Republiek Turkije --- Republiek van Turkye --- Republik bu Tirki --- Republik Tierkei --- Republik Turkäi --- Republik Türkei --- Républik Turki --- Republik Turkia --- Republika e Turqis --- Republika ng Turkiya --- Repùblika Tërecczi --- Republika Turcija --- Republika Turcji --- Republika Turcyje --- Republika Turecko --- Republika Turkiya --- Republika Turkojska --- Republika Turska --- Republika Turt͡sii͡ --- Republiḳah ha-Ṭurḳiyah --- Republiken Turkiet --- Republikken Tyrkia --- Republikken Tyrkiet --- République de Turquie --- République turque --- Repuvlika de Turkiya --- Ripablik kya Buturuki --- Ripoliku Turkiyakondre --- T.C. --- Tagduda n Tturk --- TC --- Teki --- Tëreck --- Ṭerḳay --- Ṭerḳishe Republi --- Thekhi --- Thỏ̂ Nhĩ K --- Thú-ngí-kh --- Tiakei --- Tierkei --- Tiki --- Tirki --- Tırkiya --- Tirkiye --- Ti͡urk --- Ti͡urk Respublika --- Ti͡urkii͡ --- Ti͡urkii͡a Respublika --- Tlacatlahtocayotl Turquia --- Tʻŏkʻi --- T'ŏk'i Konghwaguk --- Tʼóok Bikéyah --- Torkėj --- Tȯrki --- Törkie --- Tȯrkii͡ --- Tȯrkii͡a Jȯmḣu̇rii͡ate --- Török Köztársaság --- Törökország --- Toruko --- Toruko Kyōwakoku --- Tourkia --- Tourkikē Dēmokratia --- Tturk --- Tu er qi gong he guo --- Tū-ī-g --- Tū-ī-gì Gê̤ṳng-huò-guók --- Tu'erqi --- Tu'erqi gong he guo --- Tu'erqi Gongheguo --- Tuirc --- Tunk --- Turch --- Turchia --- Turchie --- Turchy Respublikæ --- Turcia --- Turcija --- Turcijas Republika --- Turcja --- Turcland --- Turcyjo --- Turechchyna --- Turecká republika --- Turecko --- Tureke --- Turet͡ska Respublika --- Turėtskai͡a Rėspublika --- Tureuki --- Türgi --- Türgi Vabariik --- Türg --- Türgü Vabariik --- Turk --- Turkäi --- Turkaland --- Turkamastor --- Türkän --- Turkanʹ respubliksʹ --- Turkee --- Türkei --- Turkeya --- Turkeye --- Turki --- Turkia --- Turkia Respubliko --- Turkie --- Turkiet --- Turkii --- Tu̇rkii͡ --- Tu̇rkii͡a Respublikasy --- Tu̇rkiĭ --- Tu̇rkiĭė Respublikata --- Turkija --- Turkije --- Turkin tasavalta --- Turkio --- Turkiy --- Turkiya Republika --- Türkiyä Respublikası --- Turkiyah --- Turkiyakondre --- Türkiye --- Türkiye Cumhuriyeti --- Türkiýe Respublikasy --- Turkki --- Turkojska --- Turkowska --- Turkujo --- Turkya --- Turkyah --- Turkye --- Turqia --- Turquía --- Turquie --- Turska --- Turtchie --- Turt͡si --- Turt͡si Respubliki --- Turt͡sii͡ --- Turtsyi͡ --- Turukiya --- Tuykia --- Twrci --- Tyrkia --- Tyrkiet --- Tyrkland --- Tẏrt͡si --- Uturuki --- Vysokai͡a Porta --- Whenua Korukoru --- Gender roles --- Kurds --- Participation --- Autobiography --- Protest movement --- Book