Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present

Bahrani, Zainab

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“…They constitute a basis for power exertion as subjugation and dominance are put in feminine and masculine terms, for example, fighting like men and fleeing like women. Violating women to target their male relatives and humiliating men before their female relatives are common gendered forms of violence (Al-Ali, 2007;Besikci, 1990Besikci, , 1991Peteet, 1994).…”

Section: Gender In the Age Of Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Yuval‐Davis (1997) highlighted, the leading studies on nation and nationalism have vastly negated gender‐nation relations by considering them irrelevant. Conversely, those studies that have examined this relationship have argued that women are instrumentalized as valuable tools in national movements to construct a nation in which women are treated as second‐class members (Al‐Ali, 2007; Aslan, 2014; Baron, 2005; Hogan, 2008; Kandiyoti, 1991; Peteet, 2002; Yuval‐Davis, 1997, 2003; Yuval‐Davis & Anthias, 1989). However, in the Kurdish case, as well as in some other similar cases, such as the Zapatistas (Marcos, 2014), a national movement and its discourse operate as a channel for pursuing a gender‐egalitarian agenda with a focus on women's liberation from social modes of oppression.…”

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Kurdish gender politics: Funeral ceremonies of female fighters

Abakay

2024

Digest Mid East Studies

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The funeral ceremonies of female fighters are a relatively recent phenomenon that gained popularity in Kurdish politics in Turkey in the early 2000s and after the 2011 uprisings in Syria. As a sociocultural rite, these funerals have become a spectacular site, a political means, and a symbolic investment serving an intersectional agenda pursuing Kurdish national and gender‐egalitarian aspirations simultaneously. The funerals provide a ground for mobilizing women to claim symbolic authority in public and inscribe women as nation builders to the notion of nation. Women undertaking this intersectional task through national discourse garnered significant academic interest in the national dimension of the ceremonies. However, the emphasis on the national aspect overshadowed the gendered strategy the ceremonies signify. This article investigates the gender aspect of funerals to draw attention to the use of national discourse to subvert patriarchal dynamics within society, highlighting the role of national struggle in women's pursuit of liberation from social oppression. Therefore, it speaks to the scholarship focused on gender in nationalist endeavors and revisits the discussions on gender‐nation relations by focusing on national discourse instrumentalization serving the gender agenda. The analysis reveals the intricate dynamics between gender and nation and how they intersect in pursuing women's liberation.

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Section: Gender In the Age Of Nationalismmentioning

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Kurdish gender politics: Funeral ceremonies of female fighters

Abakay

2024

Digest Mid East Studies

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“…Nevertheless, in the same year, then-President Saddam Hussein issued a decree granting immunity to men accused of committing honour crimes -crimes against women suspected of having violated the codes of social conduct (i.e. the normative orders in Al -Ali 2007;Al-Jawaheri 2008). In 2003, the coalition forces led by the United States (US) toppled Saddam Hussein's regime.…”

Section: Legal Spaces and Normative Orders For Women In Iraq: The Int...mentioning

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“…Comprehensive research has been conducted on Iraqi women's situations. Such distinguished scholars as Al- Ali (2007), Ali (2018), Efrati (2012), and Jones-Gailani (2020) have examined multiple aspects of Iraqi women's lives from the times of monarchy to the present day, including freedom. Conceptions of freedom have varied at different times but have always been relentlessly transformed by women's subjective situations and the social and political climate, and memory making.…”

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“…We illustrate the (gendered) power dynamics of certain laws and norms and the intimate and everyday manifestations and contestations of rights on the finest scale of geopolitical space: women's bodies and their own spaces. This is an aspect that has not received adequate attention in legal geographical analyses , despite the work of eminent scholars such as Al-Ali (2007), Efrati (2012), Ahmed (2014), Ali (2018), andSaliba (2019), to mention a few. Moreover, the question of how women can disrupt historical religious authority and reconceptualise understandings of rights is an important topic today (Doorn-Harder 2006;Frisk 2009;Basarundin 2010Basarundin , 2013.…”

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“Freedom is a treasure that only those who lose it can know”: a spatiotemporal exploration of 22 Iraqi women’s interlegalities

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Ubeis

2023

Fennia

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In this article, we discuss the spatiotemporal interlegalities of 22 women living in Iraq, understood as an emerging legal landscape characterised by legal and normative entanglements rather than parallel systems of laws and morals. Iraqi women are situated at the intersections of the coexisting legal spaces and stratifications of various scales and multiple normative orders that have been deeply embedded in Iraqi religious and tribal traditions throughout time. It is at these intersections that experiences of non-freedom and struggles for freedom are intimately felt and possible contradictions among the multiple legal spaces and normative orders encountered. Herein, we assess women’s opportunities to negotiate the boundaries of their spaces, their abilities to govern those spaces, and the constraints they encounter on their routes to freedom. We used a map metaphor to elucidate the women’s processes for finding their way. Women’s freedom in the Iraqi context is complex, indicative of multi-layered processes of negotiation within the legally pluralistic landscape. The concept of interlegalities is a useful tool for conceptualising the multifaceted interconnections in the legal landscape of Iraqi women. The Middle East legal geography has not been widely examined, but the special characteristics of the Iraqi context regarding the interplay among legal spaces and normative orders are essential for contributing to legal geography discussions, as some theoretical premises are unsuitable for application to contexts with pluralist legal systems that lack democratic traditions.

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Kachachi’s The American Granddaughter Beyond Victims and Perpetrators of September 11: The Implicated Subject in Inaam

Alqahtani¹

2023

AWEJ‑tls

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September 11 events took a heavy toll on many countries, particularly Iraq. Ever since those events, the white American literary and critical responses dominated the mainstream of the 9/11 novel subgenre with a significant focus on the resulting trauma on white Americans. Therefore, this paper seeks to broaden the critical scope of the 9/11 novel subgenre apart from the white American majority by implementing trauma theory to view the impact of 9/11 events on Iraqi people in their homeland as represented in Inaam Kachachi’s (2008) The American Granddaughter. Its significance lies in attempting to decenter the 9/11 trauma by shifting the debate from the ethical and legal accountability of who destroyed whom to foregrounding other sites of injustices that attest to forms of the implication and voice earlier suppressed pains and worries. The main question is how Kachachi, a Paris-based Iraqi novelist, portrayed the 9/11 traumatic aftermath in the novel through the perspective of an Iraqi/American female interpreter who worked for the American army during the Iraq War. Drawing on trauma theory, this study investigates the protagonist’s complex position, which best exemplifies Michael Rothberg’s theory of implication, where a participant in a traumatic experience occupies a position aligned with power and privilege without being a direct agent of harm. This paper finds that the novel contributes to the 9/11 novel counternarratives and confirms the implication of Iraqi/American people during the Iraq War that divulged the silenced personal and collective traumatic narratives spanning several Iraqi generations.

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Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present

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Kurdish gender politics: Funeral ceremonies of female fighters

Kurdish gender politics: Funeral ceremonies of female fighters

“Freedom is a treasure that only those who lose it can know”: a spatiotemporal exploration of 22 Iraqi women’s interlegalities

Kachachi’s The American Granddaughter Beyond Victims and Perpetrators of September 11: The Implicated Subject in Inaam

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