The daughters of Kobani : the women who took on the Islamic State
Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach2021
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In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Kobani. By then, the Islamic State had swept across vast swathes of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria alongside the United States. In the process, these women would spread their own political vision, determined to make women's equality a reality by fighting - house by house, street by street, city by city - the men who bought and sold women.
Main title:
The daughters of Kobani : the women who took on the Islamic State / Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
Author:
Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach, author
Imprint:
London : Swift, 2021.
Collation:
xxxi, 254 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781800750456 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
956.910423956.91956.9104956.91 LEMM956.910423 LEM
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
706433
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