Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Historical Setting; 1: Occupation, Monarchy, and Customary Law: Tribalizing Women; 2: Family Law as a Site of Struggle and Subordination; 3: Politics, Election Law, and Exclusion; 4: Gender Discourse and Discontent: Activism Unraveled; 5: Challenging the Government's Gender Discourse; Epilogue: Past Meets Present; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This is clearly a very well researched, accessible and well written piece of important scholarship that fills a gap in the existing literature on the history of Iraq generally as well as the more specific history of Iraqi women's rights activism