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Al-Ali, Nadje Sadig and Pratt, Nicola Christine (2008) Women's organizing and the conflict in Iraq since 2003. Feminist Review, Vol.88 (No.1). pp. 74-85. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400384 ISSN 0141-7789.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400384
Abstract
This article examines the development of a women's movement in Iraq since the invasion in 2003. It describes the types of activities and the strategies of different women activists, as well as highlighting the main divisions among them. The article also discusses the various ways in which the ongoing occupation and escalating violence in Iraq has shaped women's activism and the object of their struggles. Communal and sectarian tensions had been fostered by the previous regime as well as by the political opposition in exile prior to 2003, but the systematic destruction of national institutions, such as the army and the police, by the occupation forces, has led to a flare-up of the sectarian conflict. The article concludes by evaluating women's activism in terms of its contributions to conflict on the one hand and national reconciliation on the other.
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 political activists -- Iraq, Feminism -- Iraq, Reconciliation, Iraq -- Politics and government | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Feminist Review | ||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0141-7789 | ||||
Official Date: | April 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.88 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 74-85 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400384 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Funder: | British Academy (BA) |
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