In Foucault’s theories no ethical system can be established outside its social framework, and that is
why subjectivity and some of its important manifestations like body and its behavior are figured, or,
more accurately according to Foucault’s terminology, are colonized, by a variety of forces. What this
paper suggests is introducing patriarchy both as a disciplinary, though traditional, institution and one
of the regulating forces leading in colonizing of Kurdish women’s subjectivity and bodies as well. In
fact, the paper shows that it is patriarchy, as a dominant system of bipower in Kurdish society, which
prepares the condition in which women’s subjectivity becomes the target of exercising of repressive
power.
Kurdish Women’s Subjectivity: a Target of Patriarchal Power: A Foucaultian Perspective
