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Examines the relationship between gender and war in the context of ethnicity, citizenship, history, women's agency, regional differences, aspects of motherhood, and peace activism; questions the notion of women as essentially nonviolent. Some focus on the Bosnian violence and on peace activism by Israeli, Palestinian, and Afghan women; includes feminist perspectives.

" Fearful for their safety and unnerved by last weekend's attack on a high-ranking female official, Iraqi women activists are retreating from the public sphere and choosing to keep their work low-profile …They do not want to be featured because they have seen what has happened to Aqila Hashimi." This was how Noeleen Heyzer, executive director of the UN Development Fund for Women, described how Iraqi women felt after the murder of Aqila Hashemi, a member of the interim governing council. Unidentified armed men had shot at Hashemi in September, while she was standing in front of her house in Baghdad, and she had died a few days later from her wounds. Hashemi's murder came as a shock to Iraqi women, and heightened their feeling that they were direct targets in this war.

WOMEN HAVE BECOME, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE PRIMARY VICTIMS IN THE WARS OF OUR TIMES

Law and Iranian women's activism / Louise A. Halper -- Gendered space and shared security: women's activism in peace and conflict resolution in Indonesia / Etin Anwar -- Failures of solidarity, failures of the nation-state: nongovernmental organizations and Moroccan women's activism / Rachel Newcomb -- Beyond personal belief? The role of religious identities among Muslim women respect activists / Narzanin Massoumi -- In search of faithful citizens in postcolonial Malaysia: Islamic ethics, Muslim activism, and feminist politics / Azza Basarudin -- Muslim women's scholarship and the new gender jihad / Roxanne D. Marcotte -- New expressions of religiosity: Al Huda international and the expansion of Islamic education for Pakistani Muslim women / Khanum Shaikh -- "Women's spirit" and spiritual matter(s)": gender, activism, and scholarship in an Ethiopian eco-spiritual system / Patricia H. Karimi-Taleghani -- Staging politics: new currents in North African women's dramatic literature / Laura Chakravarty Box -- Indonesian women: activist and Islamist spiritual callings / Nelly Van Doorn-Harder -- The dialogs of a new Orientalist discourse: telling tales of Iranian womanhood / Kahani Beguum -- Religious practice and worldview of Muslim women in western Europe / Kari Vogt -- From ritual to redemption : world view of Shi'a Muslim women in southern California / Bridget Blomfield -- Religion as a spring for activism: Muslim women youth in Canada / Katherine Bullock

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Working women today: a wasted resource -- 2 Pre-industrial woman -- 3 The Industrial Revolution -- 4 Trade unions: men only -- 5 The professions close ranks -- 6 The two world wars: votes and jobs -- 7 Women's attitudes to work -- 8 Work's attitudes to women -- 9 Women and the professions today: too little, too late -- 10 Married women: burying the talents -- 11 Second thoughts set in -- 12 Equality and the law -- Notes to chapters -- Index