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Al-Ali, Nadje Sadig and Pratt, Nicola Christine (2006) Women in Iraq: beyond the rhetoric. Middle East Reports (No.239). pp. 18-23. ISSN 0899-2851.
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Abstract
At a press conference two weeks before the US-led invasion of Iraq, flanked by four “Women for a Free Iraq,”1 Paula Dobriansky, then undersecretary of state for global affairs, declared: “We are at a critical point in dealing with Saddam Hussein. However this turns out, it is clear that the women of Iraq have a critical role to play in the future revival of their society.” For the Bush administration, Iraqi women would not only be “helping give birth to freedom” in the post-Saddam order.2 US officials spoke publicly about rape, torture and executions of women under Ba‘th Party rule, implicitly linking these atrocities to the necessity for US military action.3
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Iraq War, 2003-, Women -- Social conditions -- Iraq, Women in politics -- Iraq, Iraq -- Social conditions, Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003- | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Middle East Reports | ||||
Publisher: | Blackwell | ||||
ISSN: | 0899-2851 | ||||
Official Date: | June 2006 | ||||
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Number: | No.239 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 18-23 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Funder: | British Academy (BA) |
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