Occupation is not (Women’s) Liberation
by Huibin Amee Chew; March 24, 2005
Part I Confronting ‘Imperial Feminism’ and Building a Feminist Anti-War Movement
Iraqi author and dissident Haifa Zangana, formerly imprisoned under
Saddam Hussein’s regime but adamantly opposed to U.S. occupation, writes,
“in the aftermath of the 1958 revolution ending the British-imposed
monarchy [in Iraq]... women’s organizations achieved within two years what
over 30 years of British occupation failed to: legal equality.” more
Part II Drawing the lines between imperialism and U.S. patriarchy - the need for feminist intervention in the anti-war movement
I now turn to the sphere of domestic U.S. politics, to examine a
glaring rift between current anti-war organizing against the occupation of
Iraq, and mainstream feminist politics. more