The Iraqi Women's League was an Iraqi women's organization, founded as League for Defending Iraqi Woman's Rights in 1952, which changed the name of Iraqi Women's League in 1958.[1][2]
Saddam Hussein's 1979 rise to power resulted in a crackdown on members of the League, which was forced underground. The novelist Iqbal al-Qazwini, in East Berlin as the League's delegate to the Women's International Democratic Federation in 1978, remained in exile there.[3]
After Saddam's removal, league membership rose again: by August 2003 it had risen to five hundred women, though many of the younger members lacked organizational experience.[3]
References
edit- ^ Ali, Zahra (13 September 2018). Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-19109-9. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "تأريخ الرابطة – رابطة المرأة العراقية". iraqiwomensleague.com. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ a b Iqbal Al-Qazwini (2008). Zubaida's Window: A Novel of Iraqi Exile. Feminist Press at CUNY. pp. 124–5. ISBN 978-1-55861-745-2.
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