Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781316641620)

Since the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the challenges of sectarianism and militarism have weighed heavily on the women of Iraq. In this book, Zahra Ali foregrounds a wide-range of interviews with a variety of women involved in women's rights activism, showing how everyday life and intellectual life has developed since the US-led invasion. In addition to this, Ali offers detailed historical research of social, economic and political contexts since the formation of the Iraqi state in the 1920s. Through a transnational and postcolonial feminist approach, this book also considers the ways in which gender norms and practices, Iraqi feminist discourses, and activisms are shaped and developed through state politics, competing nationalisms, religious, tribal and sectarian dynamics, wars, and economic sanctions. The result is a vivid account of the everyday life in today's Iraq and an exceptional analysis of the future of Iraqi feminisms.

Author: Zahra Ali
ISBN-10: 1316641627
ISBN-13: 9781316641620
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2018
Pages: 338
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.47w x 0.63d