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

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.

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

Zahra Ali is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her research explores the dynamics of women and gender, social and political movements in relation to Islam(s), the Middle East, and contexts of war and conflict with a focus on contemporary Iraq. Ali is also a Muslim feminist activist involved in anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggles.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Zahra Ali, Zahra (Rutgers University Ali
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781107191099
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19109-9
• Pages: 338
• Thèmes: Cambridge Middle East Studies; Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Political activism, Feminism & feminist theory, Middle Eastern history, Iraq, Feminism and feminist theory, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Specific wars and campaigns, Iraq War, Political activism / Political engagement