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Author Efrati, Noga

Title Women in Iraq : Past Meets Present
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Women -- Iraq -- Social conditions
Feminism -- Iraq -- History
Women's rights -- Iraq -- History
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Feminism
Women -- Social conditions
Women's rights
Iraq
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231530248
0231530242