Womens Issues Sources

Women's Issues

Scholarly

1. Source: Women in Action:  S7, December 2003
Publisher: Isis International
Subject Area: Discrimination; Human rights
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This scholarly article shows how women are being mistreated. Examples include the extensive vigil over young women because of the fear of rape and/or adbuctions. Also, the shame of having a raped woman in your family. The article says some raped women are killed or left for dead because of their families shame.
2. Title: After the war: women in Iraq. (Interview).
Source: Off Our Backs, 33 (7-8):  8, July 2003. ISSN: 0030-0071
Publisher: Off Our Backs, Inc.
Subject Area: Activism; Middle Eastern
Geographic Area: Iraq; Middle East  
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This scolarly article shows a woman being interviewed and she talks about all the hostility in iraq and the loss of control women have.

3. Title: Iraqi Resistance You Don't Hear About
Author: Weinberg, Bill.
This scolarly article is about the resistance of baathist rule over baghdad and the undergrown womens resistance.
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4. Socio-economic status and role of woman in Islam towards gender equality (journal)
This source talks about gender equality in Islam and Iraq. It talks about how through religion, men and women are treated equally in every way as long as they follow their religion.
Bala, H. (2010). Socio-economic status and role of woman in Islam towards gender equality. Gender & Behaviour, 8(2), 3143. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/763678995?accountid=619

5.  Women, Islam, and the New Iraq (journal)
This source talks about women in Iraq after the Saddam regime. This article says that Iraq just passed Article 14 of the new Iraq Constitution and it states that women and men are equal before the law.
Coleman, I. (2006). Women, islam, and the new iraq. Foreign Affairs, 85(1), 24. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/214305017?accountid=6199
6. Women in Iraq: the Gender impact of International Sanctions (journal)
This source talks about how women have been affected by the international sanctions that have been put on Iraq after the American invasion.
Guthrie, A., Arrington, C., Mohammad, K., & Rothblum, E. (2009). Women in iraq: The gender impact of international sanctions. Journal of International Women's Studies, 10(4), 301. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/232163627?accountid=6199

7. Women in Post-Saddam Iraq: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back? (journal)
This talks about the woman situation after the Saddam regime and whether things have changed or are still the same.
Brown, L., & Romano, D. (2006). Women in post-saddam iraq: One step forward or two steps back? NWSA Journal, 18(3), 51. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/233234726?accountid=6199 

8. Nuaimi, M. A. A. (2008). Gender-based violence: A study of iraqi women. International Social Science Journal, 59(192), 309. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/203265431?accountid=6199

àThe purpose of this article is to examine and analyse the incidence of violence against women in Iraq. Also talkes about gender roles in Iraq

9. Brown, L., & Romano, D. (2006). Women in post-saddam iraq: One step forward or two steps back? NWSA Journal, 18(3), 51. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/233234726?accountid=6199

àThis article examines the ever-changing position of women in post-monarchical Iraq. It tell about womens right before sadam and after sadam.

10. Coleman, I. (2006). Women, islam, and the new iraq. Foreign Affairs, 85(1), 24. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/214305017?accountid=6199

àArticle 14 of Iraq's new constitution, approved in a nationwide referendum held on October 15, states that Iraqis are equal before the law "without discrimination because of sex." Yet the constitution also states that no law can be passed that contradicts the "established rulings" of Islam.

11.  Ali, N. A., & Pratt, N. (2008). Women's organizing and the conflict in iraq since 2003. Feminist Review, (88), 74. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/212048734?accountid=6199
àThis article examines the development of a women's movement in Iraq since the invasion in 2003. It describes the types of activities and the strategies of different women activists, as well as highlighting the main divisions among them
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PUBLIC SOURCES
 
1. COLUMNIST, KAVITA R. G. "U.S. Invasion Makes Life Worse for Women of Iraq: [Final Edition]." Seattle Post - Intelligencer: B.5. National Newspapers Premier. 2007. Web. 10 Feb. 2011 <http://search.proquest.com/docview/385418139?accountid=6199>.  
The U.S.'s invasion into Iraq, changed the status for Iraqi women for the worst. After the invasion, Iraq's new leaders used old tradtions that discriminated against women and had given them virtually no rights, putting a lot of Iraqi women in serious danger. 

2. Leland, John, and Riyadh Mohammed. "Iraqi Women Are Seeking Greater Political Influence." New York Times 17 Feb. 2010: A10(L). The New York Times. Web. 10 Feb. 2011.

è    This article is about women in the political field in Iraq.
  

3. Sandler, L. (2003, Veiled interests iraqi women debate religion, democracy, and head scarves. but is anyone listening?: [third edition]. Boston Globe, pp. D.1. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/405535255?accountid=6199
è    The social restraints about how women are suppose to act in public and how they are suppose to dress.
·                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Sandler, L. (2003, Veiled interests iraqi
 

This artice talks a lot about Women’s Rights in times of war in Iraq. It is kind of hard to read, but it has a lot of information about not only women’s rights during war in Iraq, but also the history of women’s rights during war
  • Coleman, Isobel. "Women, Islam, and the New Iraq." Foreign Affairs 85.1 (2006): 24. ProQuest Central. Web. 10 Feb. 2011.
This article talks about how women are being treated unfairly, after new laws were made in Iraq.
This New York Times article talks about how new Iraqi laws could take power away from women.

Glanz, James. "Some Fear Iraq's Charter Will Erode Women's Rights." New York Times 8 Aug. 2005: A6(L). The New York Times. Web. 10 Feb. 2011
This article also talks about how new laws in Iraq could take away rights of women, and how women’s rights are going backward

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                       FILKINS, D. (2004, Group linked to
    • FILKINS, D. (Carla Power, et al. "IRAQ'S HIDDEN WAR." Newsweek 145.10 (2005): 20-25. Military & Government Collection. EBSCO. Web. 10 Feb. 2011.
This article shows how women are easily kidnapped if they are dressed nicely.  It also explains how women’s attendance to schools/ universities is in decline because they are afraid to walk out of their house.

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