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Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty

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We get money at the cost of life here. Do you think death is not better than this life?Being a Kolbar is darkness. It is unfortunate. You either get shot, or you fall down a mountain, then stay alive but disabled.1 (Arasteh, a Kurdish woman kolbar)

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Iranian Studies , First View , pp. 1 - 5
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