Women and Gender in Iraq : Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation (Paperback)

1. Genesis of the 'woman question': the colonial state and the rise and fall of the new Iraqi Republic (1917?68); 2. Women, gender, nation and the Ba'th authoritarian regime; 3. Experiencing the invasion and occupation and the women of the new regime; 4. The emergence of women's groups and networks after the fall of the Ba'th regime; 5. Kurdish women's activism in Iraqi Kurdistan; 6. Mobilizing for women's legal rights: gender and sectarianism; 7. Iraqi feminisms: searching for common grounds.