Iraqi Women

Author : Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1842777459

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Iraqi Women by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali Pdf

The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. For years, their lives have been framed by state oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now they must play a seminal role in reshaping their country's future for the twenty-first century. Nadje Al-Ali challenges the myths and misconceptions which have dominated debates about Iraqi women, bringing a much needed gender perspective to bear on the central political issue of our time. Based on life stories and oral histories of Iraqi women, she traces the history of Iraq from post-colonial independence, to the emergence of a women's movement in the 1950s, Saddam Hussein's early policy of state feminism to the turn towards greater social conservatism triggered by war and sanctions. Yet, the book also shows that, far from being passive victims, Iraqi women have been, and continue to be, key social and political actors. Following the invasion, Al-Ali analyses the impact of occupation and Islamist movements on women's lives and argues that US-led calls for liberation has led to a greater backlash against Iraqi women.

Author : Zahra Ali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107191099

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Women and Gender in Iraq by Zahra Ali Pdf

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.

Author : Noga Efrati
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231530248

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Women in Iraq by Noga Efrati Pdf

Noga Efrati outlines the first social and political history of women in Iraq during the periods of British occupation and the British-backed Hashimite monarchy (1917–1958). She traces the harsh and long-lasting implications of British state building on Iraqi women, particularly their legal and political enshrinement as second-class citizens, and the struggle by women's rights activists to counter this precedent. Efrati concludes with a discussion of post-Saddam Iraq and the women's associations now claiming their place in government. Finding common threads between these two generations of women, Efrati underscores the organic roots of the current fight for gender equality shaped by a memory of oppression under the monarchy. Efrati revisits the British strategy of efficient rule, largely adopted by the Iraqi government they erected and the consequent gender policy that emerged. The attempt to control Iraq through "authentic leaders"—giving them legal and political powers—marginalized the interests of women and virtually sacrificed their well-being altogether. Iraqi women refused to resign themselves to this fate. From the state's early days, they drew attention to the biases of the Tribal Criminal and Civil Disputes Regulation (TCCDR) and the absence of state intervention in matters of personal status and resisted women's disenfranchisement. Following the coup of 1958, their criticism helped precipitate the dissolution of the TCCDR and the ratification of the Personal Status Law. A new government gender discourse shaped by these past battles arose, yet the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, rather than helping cement women's rights into law, reinstated the British approach. Pressured to secure order and reestablish a pro-Western Iraq, the Americans increasingly turned to the country's "authentic leaders" to maintain control while continuing to marginalize women. Efrati considers Iraqi women's efforts to preserve the progress they have made, utterly defeating the notion that they have been passive witnesses to history.

Author : Ruth Abou Rached
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000202977

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Reading Iraqi Women’s Novels in English Translation by Ruth Abou Rached Pdf

By exploring how translation has shaped the literary contexts of six Iraqi woman writers, this book offers new insights into their translation pathways as part of their stories’ politics of meaning-making. The writers in focus are Samira Al-Mana, Daizy Al-Amir, Inaam Kachachi, Betool Khedairi, Alia Mamdouh and Hadiya Hussein, whose novels include themes of exile, war, occupation, class, rurality and storytelling as cultural survival. Using perspectives of feminist translation to examine how Iraqi women’s story-making has been mediated in English translation across differing times and locations, this book is the first to explore how Iraqi women’s literature calls for new theoretical engagements and why this literature often interrogates and diversifies many literary theories’ geopolitical scope. This book will be of great interest for researchers in Arabic literature, women’s literature, translation studies and women and gender studies.

Author : Sana Khayyat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X001857668

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Honour and Shame by Sana Khayyat Pdf

A testimony to the world of Iraqi women. Ranging from executives to illiterate housewives, the women speak with frankness of sex and marriage, physical and mental violence, the fear of scandal and their indoctrination into the ideology of honour and shame. On the basis of an in-depth study conducted over several years, the author builds a picture of Iraqi women's lives from birth to old age. Although the book's main focus is on Iraq, there are cross-cultural comparisons between Third World women and women in Western societies.

Author : Nadje Sadig Al-Ali,Nicola Christine Pratt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0520257294

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What Kind of Liberation? by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali,Nicola Christine Pratt Pdf

"There is something to learn, literally, on every page here."--Cynthia Enloe, from the foreword "This is a fluent and highly informed account of the women of Iraq during a time of ever increasing political turmoil, economic disaster and foreign invasion. It gives a fascinating insight into the way Iraqi society really works and is far superior in quality to most of what has been written about Iraq in war and peace."--Patrick Cockburn, author of Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq

Author : M. Alinia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137367013

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Honor and Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan by M. Alinia Pdf

This book examines violence against women in the name of honor in Iraqi Kurdistan, taking an intersectional perspective. It reveals the links between destructive, state-sanctioned honor discourse and notions of manhood as they are shaped by a resistance culture dedicated to the struggle against ethnic oppression.

Author : Doreen Ingrams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UVA:X000864639

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The Awakened by Doreen Ingrams Pdf

Author : Sherifa Zuhur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Iraq
ISBN : IND:30000139803443

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Iraq, Women's Empowerment, and Public Policy by Sherifa Zuhur Pdf

Author : Haifa Zangana
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609800710

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City of Widows by Haifa Zangana Pdf

In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a system within which to build the country according to their own values. She points to the long history of political activism and social participation of Iraqi women, and the fact that, before the recent invasion, they had been among the most liberated of their gender in the Middle East. Finally, she writes about Baghdad today as a city populated by bereaved women and children who have lost their loved ones and their land, but who are still emboldened by the native right to resist and liberate themselves to create an independent Iraq.

Author : Huda Al-Tamimi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788316231

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Women and Democracy in Iraq by Huda Al-Tamimi Pdf

As the post-invasion reconstruction of Iraq has unfolded, the potential for Iraqi women to participate actively and visibly in the country's political structure has been one of its most notable results. The 2005 Constitution required that no less than 25% of seats in the Iraqi Parliament be filled by women. Yet despite subsequent parliamentary statistics suggesting great strides for female political participation, there has been a resounding silence on the wider implications of this quota for women in Iraqi political life. This book is the first full-length study of women's political representation in Iraq. Based on interviews with politicians and substantial media analysis, Huda Al-Tamimi outlines the political, sectarian and cultural constraints facing female Members of Parliament, and the ways in which individual women and women's organizations are actively challenging barriers to their political influence. The book is a vital contribution to discussions concerning the success and limitations of gender quotas in the Middle East. It also offers new and critical perspectives on the evolution of Iraqi politics, a subject that remains of high priority for a region and international community interested in the nation's reconstruction.

Author : Hawraa Al-Hassan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474441773

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Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State by Hawraa Al-Hassan Pdf

Explores discourses on gender and representations of women in modern Iraqi fiction. By exploring discourses on gender in both propaganda and high art fictional writings by Iraqis, this book offers an alternative narrative of the literary and cultural history of Iraq.

Author : Nadia` Jones-Gailani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487517328

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Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora by Nadia` Jones-Gailani Pdf

This book draws on an extensive archive of over one hundred oral narratives collected and recorded with Iraqi women in three sites: Amman, Detroit, and Toronto. Nadia Jones-Gailani demonstrates how the relationships between ethno-religious migrants, nation, and citizenship are shaped by the traumatic experiences of forced displacement and integration into new communities and national imaginaries. This book also examines the broader historical trends that have precipitated migration from Iraq. While informed by research into the archival documentary record on Iraqis in North America, this book is first and foremost a study of gender and memory that focuses on women’s oral histories. By historicizing the process through which ethno-religious and ethno-national communities become fractured and remade, Jones-Gailani explores the expectations and realities of women as the supposed biological and cultural reproducers of the nation. The Iraqi women featured in this book assert their claims to belonging across three different generations, thereby opening up spaces to discuss how sites of migration shape the ability of migrants to lobby for "the homeland," even as they engage in daily struggles to advance their education and economic stability abroad.

Author : Yasmin Husein Al-Jawaheri
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Economic sanctions
ISBN : UCSC:32106017119527

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Women in Iraq by Yasmin Husein Al-Jawaheri Pdf

Since the removal of Saddam Hussein from power, Iraq has seen an explosion of violence and intimidation against women. However, as al-Jawaheri demonstrates in this original and important book, this development should not have taken people by surprise. The deterioriation of gender relations was in fact an overlooked by-product of a decade of international sanctions. Interviewing women of all different ages and backgrounds, al-Jawaheri examines the impact of the UN economic sanctions on family relations, gender violence, domestic responsibilities and employment practices. She shows that by restricting women's ability to participate in education and in the labour force, sanctions reinforced conservative gender roles. She shows how the 2003 war and upsurge in sectarianism intensified this problem, and assesses the future prospects for women's rights in Iraq.

Author : Kirsten Holmstedt
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811735667

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Band of Sisters by Kirsten Holmstedt Pdf

Profiles twelve women soldiers who have served in the Iraq War, describing their experiences in the war, discussing the pressures of the job, and touching on the difficulties of being a woman in the military.