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7 - Iraqi Feminisms

Searching for Common Grounds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2018

Zahra Ali
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
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This chapter starts with a reflection of the commonalities between the different activists’ discourses on what an “Iraqi woman” should be. I explore Iraqi women activists’ different feminisms, and their definition of gender norms and relations in an analytical framework linking the personal to the political. First, I propose to reflect on the relationship between gender and conservatisms, issues of piety, morality and respectability, as well as on Muslimness, Islam and feminisms. Then, I present the different trends of feminisms existing in Iraq in relation to women’s rights activists’ discourses on gender equality, norms and relations. Finally, I look at the ways in which Iraqi women activists define respectability and womanhood in relation to their lives and struggles.
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Women and Gender in Iraq
Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation
, pp. 249 - 290
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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  • Iraqi Feminisms
  • Zahra Ali, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Women and Gender in Iraq
  • Online publication: 27 August 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108120517.009
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  • Iraqi Feminisms
  • Zahra Ali, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Women and Gender in Iraq
  • Online publication: 27 August 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108120517.009
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  • Iraqi Feminisms
  • Zahra Ali, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Women and Gender in Iraq
  • Online publication: 27 August 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108120517.009
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