Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation

ISBN-13: 9781107191099 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 338 str.

Zahra Ali

Opis

Highlighting Iraqi women's voices, this is an examination of women, gender and feminisms in Iraq in the wake of the 2003 US-led invasion.

Spis treści

1. Genesis of the 'woman question': the colonial state and the rise and fall of the new Iraqi Republic (1917–68); 2. Women, gender, nation and the Ba'th authoritarian regime; 3. Experiencing the invasion and occupation and the women of the new regime; 4. The emergence of women's groups and networks after the fall of the Ba'th regime; 5. Kurdish women's activism in Iraqi Kurdistan; 6. Mobilizing for women's legal rights: gender and sectarianism; 7. Iraqi feminisms: searching for common grounds.