ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the gendered dynamics of the Abkhazian war and the memories of these militant women of the war. Seven Abkhazian women from Turkey also voluntarily went to Abkhazia to participate in the war. The statement had gone beyond the contemporary patriarchal limits of Abkhazian society, which viewed war, events at the front, and the military in general as masculine affairs. Although the 19921993 war constituted a turning point in terms of the construction of Abkhazian and Georgian national and diasporic identities, the literature on the war. With their actions and statements they challenged the contemporary patriarchal limits of Abkhazian society in particular and Caucasian and Turkish society in general, in which protecting women and the motherland from threats was regarded as a masculine task. Birgl, a socialist divorced woman who never portrayed herself as an Abkhazian nationalist, was transformed into an Abkhazian goddess of war, who made war and jams at the same time.
