Women in Iraq: Past Meets PresentColumbia University Press, 24 jan 2012 - 256 pagina's 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. |
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1916 | |
1929 | |
Tribalizing | |
Family Law as a Site of Struggle and Subordination | |
Politics Election Law and Exclusion | |
Activism Unraveled | |
Challenging the Governments Gender Discourse | |
EPILOGUE Past Meets Present | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |