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What Kind of Liberation?

Women and the Occupation of Iraq

By: Nadje Al-Ali,Nicola Pratt

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What Kind of Liberation?

Women and the Occupation of Iraq

By: Nadje Al-Ali,Nicola Pratt

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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520942175

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9780520942172

New Approaches to Migration?

Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home

By: Nadje Al-Ali,Khalid Koser

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Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home

By: Nadje Al-Ali,Khalid Koser

This book critically evaluates the transnational communities approach to contemporary international migration. It does so through a specific focus on the relationship between 'transnational communities' and 'home'. The meaning of 'home' for international migrants is changing and evolving, as new globally-oriented identities are developed. These issues are explored through a number of central themes: the meaning of 'home' to transnational peoples, the implications of transforming these social spaces and how these have been transformed.

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295

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Routledge

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1134523777

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9781134523771

Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East

The Egyptian Women's Movement

By: Nadje Al-Ali

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Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East

The Egyptian Women's Movement

By: Nadje Al-Ali

A considerable literature has been devoted to the study of Islamic activism. By contrast, Nadje Al-Ali's book explores the anthropological and political significance of secular-oriented activism by focusing on the women's movement in Egypt. In so doing, it challenges stereotypical images of Arab women as passive victims and demonstrates how they fight for their rights and confront conservative forces. Al-Ali's book also takes issue with prevailing constructions of 'the West' and its perceived dichotomous relation to 'the East'. The argument is constructed around interviews which afford fascinating insights into the history of the women's movement in Egypt, notions about secularism and how Islamist constituencies have impacted on women's activism generally. The balance between the empirical and conceptual material is adeptly handled. The author frames her work in the context of current theoretical debates in Middle Eastern and post-colonial scholarship: while some of the ideas are complex, her lucid style means they are always comprehensible; the book will therefore appeal to students, as well as to scholars in the field.

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286

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Cambridge University Press

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0521785049

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9780521785044

Iraqi Women

Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present

By: Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

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Iraqi Women

Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present

By: Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. For years, their lives have been framed by state oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now they must play a seminal role in reshaping their country's future for the twenty-first century. Nadje Al-Ali challenges the myths and misconceptions which have dominated debates about Iraqi women, bringing a much needed gender perspective to bear on the central political issue of our time. Based on life stories and oral histories of Iraqi women, she traces the history of Iraq from post-colonial independence, to the emergence of a women's movement in the 1950s, Saddam Hussein's early policy of state feminism to the turn towards greater social conservatism triggered by war and sanctions. Yet, the book also shows that, far from being passive victims, Iraqi women have been, and continue to be, key social and political actors. Following the invasion, Al-Ali analyses the impact of occupation and Islamist movements on women's lives and argues that US-led calls for liberation has led to a greater backlash against Iraqi women.

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Zed Books

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1842777459

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What Kind of Liberation?

Women and the Occupation of Iraq

By: Nadje Sadig Al-Ali,Nicola Christine Pratt

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Women and the Occupation of Iraq

By: Nadje Sadig Al-Ali,Nicola Christine Pratt

There is something to learn, literally, on every page here."--Cynthia Enloe, from the foreword "This is a fluent and highly informed account of the women of Iraq during a time of ever increasing political turmoil, economic disaster and foreign invasion. It gives a fascinating insight into the way Iraqi society really works and is far superior in quality to most of what has been written about Iraq in war and peace."--Patrick Cockburn, author of Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq

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Univ of California Press

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0520257294

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9780520257290

Iraqi Women

Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present

By: Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

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Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present

By: Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848137125

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Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East

The Egyptian Women's Movement

By: Nadje Al-Ali

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Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East

The Egyptian Women's Movement

By: Nadje Al-Ali

Nadje Al-Ali's book explores the anthropological and political significance of secular-oriented activism by focusing on the women's movement in Egypt; in so doing, it challenges stereotypical images of Arab women as passive victims. The argument is constructed around interviews that afford insights into the history of the movement, its activities and its goals. The author frames her work around current theoretical debates in Middle Eastern and postcolonial scholarship.

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Cambridge University Press

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Book's by Nadje Al-Ali

What Kind of Liberation?

What Kind of Liberation?

New Approaches to Migration?

New Approaches to Migration?

Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East

Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East

Iraqi Women

Iraqi Women

What Kind of Liberation?

What Kind of Liberation?

Iraqi Women

Iraqi Women

Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East

Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East

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