Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women <i>Kolbar</i>s and the Feminization of Poverty

AleAhmad, Yosra

doi:10.1017/irn.2024.7

Iran. stud.

2024

DOI: 10.1017/irn.2024.7

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Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty

Yosra AleAhmad

Abstract: We get money at the cost of life here. Do you think death is not better than this life?Being a Kolbar is darkness. It is unfortunate. You either get shot, or you fall down a mountain, then stay alive but disabled.1 (Arasteh, a Kurdish woman kolbar)

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Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty

Abstract: We get money at the cost of life here. Do you think death is not better than this life?Being a Kolbar is darkness. It is unfortunate. You either get shot, or you fall down a mountain, then stay alive but disabled.1 (Arasteh, a Kurdish woman kolbar)

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