@article{ref1,
title="A gendered analysis of violence, justice and citizenship: Kurdish women facing war and displacement in Turkey",
journal="Women's studies international forum",
year="2010",
author="Gokalp, Deniz",
volume="33",
number="6",
pages="561-569",
abstract="SynopsisThis article examines the impact of armed conflict on Kurdish women in southeastern Turkey. I conceptualize women's agency in relation to their political consciousness and capability to seek justice in legal, political, socio-economic, and cultural terms. I argue that Kurdish women's agency stems from several phenomena: their experiences with the war, displacement, and the city; their politicization as a result of their peculiar relationship with the Turkish state, based on mutual suspicion and fear; and their propinquity with the Kurdish ethno-nationalist political organization through ethnic propaganda and mobilization. I further point out the complications involved in women's resocialization and politicization in ethnicized terms, questioning the possibility for turning an ethnically-assertive and exclusive form of women's agency into an emancipatory, inclusive, democratic force.<p />",
language="",
issn="0277-5395",
doi="10.1016/j.wsif.2010.09.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2010.09.005"
}