Kurdish Female Fighters the Western Depiction of YPJ Combatants in Rojava

As this paper is drafted, the YPJ continues to clash against Daesh’s patriarchal impositions. This paper considers three significant questions for its purpose; first, who are Kurdish female fighters and why did they choose to take up arms in an orga- nized militia? Second, how did the Western media...

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Main Author: Valentina Dean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2019-03-01
Series:Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation
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Online Access:https://ojs-unimi-test.4science.cloud/index.php/glocalism/article/view/21021
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