Breaking Through Western Media’s Monolithic Image of Female Kurdish Fighters
The Western media has been buzzing about female fighters in the Kurdish Peshmerga, which operates in Iraq, and the YPG/YPJ, the revolutionary armed wing of the...
Alvina Hoffman is an International Relations student at the LSE. She specialises in Both the Middle-East and Russian politics, and spent her summer working in Moscow’s German embassy. Her dissertation will challenge conventional feminist IR theories by investigating the case of the Rojava revolution and the women soldiers, demonstrating the oppressive nature of the nation-state system.