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In an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba?th almost completely eradicated illiteracy among women. As Iraq was metaphorically transformed into a ?female?, through its nationalist trope, women writers simultaneously found opportunities and faced obstacles from the state, as the ?woman question? became a site of contention between those who would advocate the progressiveness of the Ba?th and those who would stress its repressiveness and immorality. By exploring discourses on gender in both propaganda and high art fictional writings by Iraqis, this book offers an alternative narrative of the literary and cultural history of Iraq.

Women Writing and the Iraqi Bathist State

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      Publisher Edinburgh University Press
      Published 31 May 2022
      ISBN-13 9781474441766
      978-1474441766
      ISBN-10 1474441769
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      Feminism and feminist theory Islam

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      Book Synopsis

      In an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba?th almost completely eradicated illiteracy among women. As Iraq was metaphorically transformed into a ?female?, through its nationalist trope, women writers simultaneously found opportunities and faced obstacles from the state, as the ?woman question? became a site of contention between those who would advocate the progressiveness of the Ba?th and those who would stress its repressiveness and immorality. By exploring discourses on gender in both propaganda and high art fictional writings by Iraqis, this book offers an alternative narrative of the literary and cultural history of Iraq.

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