Despite international focus on Kurdish women revolutionaries, little is known about who these women are, where they came from and what keeps them engaged in this costly fight. This book traces the history, ideology, and everyday practices of women in the political, activist and armed branches of the Kurdish Freedom Movement.

Going beyond Orientalist tropes of female fighters, this book traces the history, ideology, and everyday practices of the Kurdish Women's Movement.

'With great analytic care and sensibility, Isabel Käser depicts the contradictions and challenges, aspirations and imaginaries that mark the lives of the women at the forefront of the Kurdish liberation movement. Her remarkable book challenges us to rethink what freedom might mean - and how it can be achieved.' Marlene Schäfers, Utrecht University