| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Iraq -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Iraq. |
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Social conditions. |
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Feminism -- Iraq -- History.
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Feminism. |
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History. |
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Women's rights -- Iraq -- History.
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Women's rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Efrati, Noga. Women in Iraq : Past Meets Present. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231158145 |
| ISBN |
9780231530248 (electronic book) |
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0231530242 (electronic book) |
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0231158149 |
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9780231158145 |
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9781280599712 |
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1280599715 |
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