What Kind of Liberation?

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-26581-3
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 403 g

In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation—especially for women. The first book to examine how Iraqi women have fared since the invasion, What Kind of Liberation? reports from the heart of the war zone with dire news of scarce resources, growing unemployment, violence, and seclusion. Moreover, the book exposes the gap between rhetoric that placed women center stage and the present reality of their diminishing roles in the "new Iraq." Based on interviews with Iraqi women's rights activists, international policy makers, and NGO workers and illustrated with photographs taken by Iraqi women, What Kind of Liberation? speaks through an astonishing array of voices. Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt correct the widespread view that the country's violence, sectarianism, and systematic erosion of women's rights come from something inherent in Muslim, Middle Eastern, or Iraqi culture. They also demonstrate how in spite of competing political agendas, Iraqi women activists are resolutely pressing to be part of the political transition, reconstruction, and shaping of the new Iraq.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al-Ali, Nadje

Pratt, Nicola

Weitere Mitwirkende

Enloe, Cynthia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword—Cynthia Enloe
Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Introduction

1. Iraqi Women before the Invasion

2. The Use and Abuse of Iraqi Women

3. Engendering the New Iraqi State

4. The Iraqi Women's Movement

5. Toward a Feminist and Anti-Imperialist Politics of Peace

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nadje Al-Ali is Reader in Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Nicola Pratt is Lecturer in Comparative Politics and International Relations at the University of East Anglia.