Is the ‘science of women’ which considers the liberation of individual women as a precondition for the liberation of society. Theorised by Abdullah Öcalan, the charismatic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), jineology opposes the religious and tribal norms that subjugate women in Middle Eastern societies and is a substantial component of Democratic Confederalism, the political philosophy that actively inspires the governance of the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria (also known as Rojava).
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