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The University of Rojava, which opened in 2016, has added the faculty of Jineolojî to its university curriculum. The development of the emancipation of women following the revolution in Rojava allowed the development of important material for the faculty of Jineolojî, open to make women’s problems more visible, and to work for women’s equality. man, as a first step towards a scientific and theoretical approach to these subjects.
The date of September 20 corresponds to other historical developments:
1883: The Belgian senator, feminist, trade unionist, Senator Maria Gabriella Baers was born. She joined the lace-makers and glove-makers union. She then founded an association for working women. She was elected to the Belgian Senate in 1936 and was a senator until 1954. II. Trying to prevent the forced labor of Belgian women in Germany during WWII, Maria first succeeded in stopping the deportation of women under the age of 24, then ended all deportations of women on March 22, 1943. In 1945, she became the first female secretary to the Senate and chair of the Parliamentary Health Committee. Her capacity as committee chairperson was a first for women. Maria died in 1959.
1973:The CISA (Sterilization and Abortion Information Center), which advocates for women’s rights to contraception and abortion, was founded in Milan, Italy. In Italy, where birth control and abortion are illegal, the goal was both to provide health care and to create a space to bring the issue before the public, the church and government institutions.
1973: In the tennis match dubbed “Battles of the Sexes,” actress Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs. A self-proclaimed chauvinist, Bobby boasted that women were inferior, couldn’t take the pressure of the game, and that he could beat any player despite his age. The game was watched by over 30,000 spectators at the Houston Astrodome and on TV by 50 million people around the world. Billie Jean’s success not only helped legitimize professional tennis players and female athletes, but was generally seen as a victory for women’s rights. “We would have wasted fifty years as tennis players if I had lost,” Billie Jean said after the match. The match was the first match in which male and female tennis players were paid equally.
2006: While Elif Şafak was acquitted of the trial in which she was tried for her novel “The Father and the Bastard”, nationalist lawyers burned the posters of Elif Şafak.
2015: At the call of the Women for Peace Initiative, women from different provinces arrived in Cizre. After the curfew and the massacres in the city, women in white T-shirts and purple ribbons with the word peace written in many languages visited the tent where the condolences were held for the disparu.es.
2015: Actress Yasemin Erbulu of the Erzurum National Theater, who was undergoing treatment for breast cancer, died at 42.
2015: The famous writer Jackie Collins, known for her romance novels such as “Married Lovers” and “The Price of Joy”, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 77. It was announced that Jackie, known for her bestselling romance novels, was being treated for breast cancer.
2015: Members of the Amara Kurdish Women’s Assembly in Stockholm organized a march for the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.
2015: In the Sheikh Masud district of Aleppo, the Yekitiya Star center was inaugurated. A significant number of women attended this opening and spoke out on the occasion, saying that this structure would allow them to work on their organization, raise their level of consciousness and fight against oppressive power relations. With the women’s center, they can together decide on their role and their missions and thus gain strength.
