ABSTRACT Research on Kurdish women has burgeoned during the last decade, which is a positive sign of the growing interest regarding a highly marginalized population and region. However, most of these works contain theoretical and methodological inadequacies, fallacies and contradictory messages regarding the agency, or lack of it, of Kurdish women, along with an orientalist approach. Using feminist rhetorical criticism and discourse approaches, together with a focus on intersectionality, orientalism and postcolonial feminism, I examine some existing studies on Kurdish women and attempt to uncover the construction of and implications about Kurdish women. I also examine the degrees to which these studies promote narratives that uphold assumptions on gender and implicitly contribute to traditional ideologies of patriarchy and the stigma of being westernized. By demonstrating the significance of a plural model, which examines the lived realities of women, their negotiations and struggles, I urge a fresh approach to the discursive and contextual practice of scholarship on Kurdish women.

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搬过来？女权主义阅读关于库尔德妇女的学术著作

摘要在过去十年中，对库尔德妇女的研究蓬勃发展，这是对高度边缘化的人口和地区日益增长的兴趣的积极迹象。然而，这些作品中的大多数都包含关于库尔德妇女的能动性或缺乏能动性以及东方主义方法的理论和方法论的不足、谬误和相互矛盾的信息。使用女权主义修辞批评和话语方法，以及对交叉性、东方主义和后殖民女权主义的关注，我研究了一些关于库尔德女性的现有研究，并试图揭示库尔德女性的建构和影响。我还研究了这些研究在多大程度上促进了支持性别假设的叙述，并隐含地促成了传统的父权制意识形态和被西方化的耻辱。通过展示多元模式的重要性，它审视了女性的生活现实、她们的谈判和斗争，我敦促对库尔德女性学术的话语和语境实践采取一种新的方法。