ISBN:
9780231158145
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in Iraq : Past Meets Present
DDC:
305.4209567
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/efra15814
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