[Bilimsel Haber] Fwd: H-Gender-MidEast: New Publication by Network Member (Al-Ali)

[Nazan Haydari]

> H-Gender-MidEast
> *************
> 
>  From Nadje Al-Ali, N.S.Al-Ali at exeter.ac.uk
> 
> Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present
> Zed Press
> Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
> 
> 
> About the Book
> The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women
> firmly on the  
> global agenda. For years, their lives have been
> framed by state  
> oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now
> they must play a  
> seminal role in reshaping their country�s
future for
> the twenty-first  
> century.
> 
> Nadje Al-Ali challenges the myths and misconceptions
> which have  
> dominated debates about Iraqi women, bringing a much
> needed gender  
> perspective to bear on the central political issue
> of our time. She  
> traces the political history of Iraq from
> post-colonial independence,  
> to the emergence of a women�s movement in the
1950s
> and Saddam  
> Hussein�s early policy of state feminism. The
book
> also discusses the  
> increases in social conservatism, domestic violence
> and prostitution,  
> and shows that, far from being passive victims,
> Iraqi women have  
> been, and continue to be, key political actors.
> Following the  
> invasion and occupation, al-Ali analyses the impact
> of Islam on  
> women�s lives and argues that US-led calls
for
> liberation may in the  
> long term serve to oppress the women of Iraq
> further.
> 
> Contents
> Introduction
> 1. Living in the Diaspora
> 2. Living with the Revolution: Life in the 1950s and
> 1960s
> 3. Living with the Baath: Days of Plenty and State
> Repression
> 4. Living with Wars on Many Fronts
> 5. Living with Sanctions
> 6. Living in Post-Baath Iraq
> Conclusion
> 
> About the Author
> Nadje Al-Ali is Senior Lecturer in social
> anthropology in the  
> Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies at the
> University of Exeter. Her  
> recent publications include Secularism, Gender and
> the State in the  
> Middle East (2000) and New Approaches to Migration
> (2002). She is  
> also a founding member of Act Together: Women's
> Action on Iraq and a  
> member of Women in Black.



 
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