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Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries

Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and... Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/18/3/408/1712613/408hegland.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 January 2023 REVIEW Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries S. Behnaz Hosseini, ed. Zurich: Lit, 2020 180 pages. ISBN 9783643961204 Reviewed by MARY ELAINE HEGLAND Despite their multifaceted participation and their suffering in many ways, women have been relatively neglected in scholarship about war and conflict, all the more so in the Middle East and North Africa. The guiding assumption that women are part of the home and private world and not active in the public world of politics and conflict, especially in the MENA area, has long exacerbated the ways in which women’s participation has been ignored. Further, early anthropologists of the MENA region were men and talked with meninthe field, who of course talked about their own worldviews and male activities. Women anthropologists going into the field during times of conflict and violence began to change the story. As a pioneer in this area, Suad Joseph (1983) showed how women maintained communications in conflict-ridden Lebanon, even across sectarian lines. In 1986 MERIP, Middle East Report, featured a special issue on women in politics and conflict zones with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women s Studies Duke University Press

Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries

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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/18/3/408/1712613/408hegland.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 January 2023 REVIEW Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries S. Behnaz Hosseini, ed. Zurich: Lit, 2020 180 pages. ISBN 9783643961204 Reviewed by MARY ELAINE HEGLAND Despite their multifaceted participation and their suffering in many ways, women have been relatively neglected in scholarship about war and conflict, all the more so in the Middle East and North Africa. The guiding assumption that women are part of the home and private world and not active in the public world of politics and conflict, especially in the MENA area, has long exacerbated the ways in which women’s participation has been ignored. Further, early anthropologists of the MENA region were men and talked with meninthe field, who of course talked about their own worldviews and male activities. Women anthropologists going into the field during times of conflict and violence began to change the story. As a pioneer in this area, Suad Joseph (1983) showed how women maintained communications in conflict-ridden Lebanon, even across sectarian lines. In 1986 MERIP, Middle East Report, featured a special issue on women in politics and conflict zones with

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Journal of Middle East Women s Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2022

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    Peteet, Julie
  • Review of Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War, by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh
    Zehtabi, Maryam