Recognition of power: The agency of Kurdish women in their everyday practices

Anthropological work on Kurdish women has hitherto adopted western stereotypes of power, representing it as non-existent, being deprived agency in everyday practices, or totally politicized. In order to challenge prescriptive gender stereotypes, moving beyond objectification subjectivity and offering a more complex analysis relations, this study examines the position within their family wider social structures Şırnak Turkish Kurdistan based sample local who are not employed paid work, children. The implications results discussed enable understanding that make possible for exercise informal decision-making authority be part power subjects, highlighting importance household management showing ‘power’ does necessarily equate straightforwardly with understandings.