The state of Iraqi Women is a huge subject with so much to talk about. Political analysts have a tendency tend to treat it and other "humanitarian issues" in Iraq as an afterthought as something not all that integral to our understanding of "real" politics, which I think is quite problematic. Their current state is also not something you can talk about without an understanding of the progression of their situation over the last 60 years, unfortunately it's this perspective that's seriously lacking in the (very few) books even remotely touching on the subject that I've seen around.
Enter Nadje Al-Ali's book, Iraqi Women, which I've already namedropped here. Her most recent, What Kind of Liberation, focuses on Iraqi women living with war and occupation, this lecture takes the longer perspective.
I can't embed the full video for some reason, the rest is here.
2 comments:
i really love this post. i like nadje's interventions on this topic. i think it is very important to hear what she says about iraqi society pre and post war, during occupation.
Yeah, Iraqi Women is hands down one of the best books I have ever read, it really helped me understand a lot. I agree with her so much about the sanctions basically being written out of history yet they are so crucial to everything else that happened. I haven't gotten to her new one yet.
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