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@article{194107,
        author = {Kayalvizhi. S and Dr. H. Marie Evangeline},
        title = {Female Survival as Moral Resistance: An Ethico-Philosophical Reading of Nadia Murad’s The Last Girl through the Thirukkural},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {10},
        pages = {2442-2448},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=194107},
        abstract = {This paper provides a moral philosophy reading of The Last Girl – My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State and challenges the idea here that Nadia Murad writes as a daughter of Yazidi and the consequences of this statement to the female survivors, as opposed to her as princesses in need of re-education done as a survival strategy is a form of moral resistance lacking the sympathy. Placing the testimony of Murad in the generic ethical scheme of the Thirukkural, a classical text of Tamil which is based on principles of virtue, compassion, justice, restraint and protection of the vulnerable on this grounds, past partisanship the paper explores how gendered violence, religious persecution Ruin and herself produce not only humanitarian disaster, but also complete ethical disaster. In a detailed account of the story of abduction, sexual enslavement and survival by Murad, the article states that violence against women is one of the gauge indicators that suggests the moral decadence of societies that were fashioned under the influence of both the military and ideology distortion. Methodologically, the paper is an attempt to blend both the moral philosophy and practical ethics into a thematic approach, Ways to take the Kural into English short of making it an unwieldy poem which cannot be translated or also fails in doing so trying to create nuances of meaning not dogmatical equivalences everything in this is done so that nuances of meaning rather than dogmatic equivalences may come out. The analysis shows how Murad’s act of survival and witness cannot be solely about personal endurance; it also transcends the call to If dehumanisation, restores moral visibility at all possible levels and demands global accountability. Holding a classical ethical text up against a modern memoir of genocide, and making references to trauma theory as well as other philosophical traditions in so doing, the paper says that universal moral philosophy still matters to interpret these narratives of gendered violence, trauma and resistance increasing coming from young writers at very high levels.},
        keywords = {Nadia Murad, female survival, moral resistance, gender ethics, testimony, ethical philosophy, genocide narratives},
        month = {March},
        }