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An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
Seven Stories Press
November 2007
On Sale: November 18, 2007
169 pages
ISBN: 1583227792
EAN: 9781583227794
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Haifa Zangana, a former political prisoner of the Ba'ath
regime, presents the first comprehensive history of women in
modern Iraq through the US occupation. Positioning Iraqi
women today in a long line of daring and vocal activists
resisting foreign aggression and despotism, Zangana traces
this lineage from the emergence of a handful of
turn-of-the-century poets to women's mass membership in
politically affiliated women's leagues, and finally
confronts the paradox of women's rising status under decades
of repressive Ba'ath rule, when they were the most educated
in the Arab world. Zangana contradicts the passive role into which Western
media have cast Iraqi women and presents a forceful critique
of foreign women's organizations' attempts to hijack the
initiatives of Iraqi women. Addressing the stark realities
of Iraq today, Zangana reveals Baghdad as a "city of
widows," where more than 300,000 women have been left to
head households. Just as the sanctions disproportionately
affected women and children, the war and occupation have
destroyed their way of life. In the rebuilding of Iraq, as
so often before, Zangana suggests, Iraqi women will be left
to pick up the pieces of their country after yet another
senseless imperial adventure.
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