Kurdish Studies May 2021 Volume: 9, No: 1, pp. 97 – 111 ISSN: 2051-4883 (Print) | ISSN 2051-4891 (Online) www.KurdishStudies.net Kurdish Studies All rights reserved @ 2021 Transnational Press London Received: 10 April 2021 Accepted: 10 April 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/ks.v9i1.637 Feminism, gender and power in Kurdish Studies: An interview with Prof. Shahrzad Mojab 1 Marlene Schäfers 2 Abstract In this interview, Prof. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her longstanding personal, political, and intellectual engagement with Kurdish women. Twenty years after publishing the ground-breaking edited volume Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds (Mazda Publishers, 2001), Mojab assesses the complex relation between Kurdish Studies and feminism and evaluates current discussions regarding gendered power relations in Kurdish scholarship. Gender relations in Kurdish society and in Kurdish Studies can only be understood, she insists, when taking into account how gender intersects with capitalism, class, colonialism, nationalism, and patriarchy. Through her personal trajectory, the interview offers insight into the historical developments that have facilitated Kurdish women to increasingly be included in Kurdish Studies as both researchers and research participants. Keywords: Capitalism; Feminisms; Gender and class relations; Kurdish Studies; Kurdish women; Nationalism; Patriarchy Abstract in Kurmanji Femînîzm, zayend û hêz di Xebatên Kurdî de: Hevpeyvînek ligel Prof. Shahrzad Mojab Di vê hevpeyvînê de, Prof. Shahrzad Mojab eleqeya xwe demdirêj a şexsî, siyasî û entelektuel ya ligel jinên kurd nîşan dide. Bîst sal piştî weşandina Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds [Jinên Neteweya Bêdewlet: Kurd] (Weşanên Mazdayê, 2001), Mojab têkiliya tevlîhev a di navbera Xebatên Kurdî û femînîzmê de; û nîqaşên nûjen yên di derbarê têkiliyên hêzê yên reng-zayendî yên di akademiya kurdî de dinirxîne. Têkiliyên zayendî yên di civaka kurd û Xebatên Kurdî de, ew îdia dike, hew ew çax dikare were fehmkirin ku bê qebûlkirin ka çawa zayend bi kapîtalîzm, sinif, kolonyalîzm, netewperwerî û bavsalariyê re tevlîhev e. Bi rêgeya xwe ya şexsî, ev hevpeyvîn pêşkêşiya fehmeke bûyerên dîrokî dike ku rê vekirin jinên kurd bi hejmareke zêde, hem weke lêkolîner hem jî weke beşdarên lêkolînan bikevin nav Xebatên Kurdî. Abstract in Sorani Fêmînîzm, cender û hêz le twêjînewey kurdîda: Dîmaneyek legell profîsor şehrezad mocab Lem dîmaneyeda, profîsor şehrezad mocab tîşk dexateser têkellîye kesî û siyasî û hizrîye dûrudrêjekanî xoy legell jinanî kurd. Bîst sall dway billawkirdnewey bergî pêşenganey "jinanî netewey-nadewlletî: kurdekan (dezgay 1 Shahrzad Mojab is Professor at the Women and Gender Studies, Institute and the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, the University of Toronto, Canada. She is also the Director of Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity and former Director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute, the University of Toronto, Canada. Email: shahrzad.mojab@utoronto.ca. 2 Marlene Schäfers, British Academy Newton International Fellow, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9BS, United Kingdom. E-mail: ems66@cam.ac.uk.