The conference of Iranian-American women was held in Los Angeles with the presence of Yasmine Pahlavi

The chant, the movement, and the notion of the centrality of women were amplified by the vocal support of Abdullah Öcalan, the ideological architect of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and they flourished alongside the development of a theoretical paradigm, jineology (Kurdish jineolojî; a combination of jin, “woman,” and -ology, “area of knowledge”), that centres Kurdish women in knowledge production. The impulse can be summed up in Öcalan’s oft-cited expression that “until woman is free, a society cannot be free.”