TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Iraqi women die too: Exploring Iraq's invisible female casualties JO - International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies A1 - Tarzi, N. SP - 23 EP - 34 VL - 12 IS - 1 N2 - In questioning the lack of gender-specific casualty data, this analysis helps to reveal the reasons responsible for the invisibility of Iraq's female dead. Iraqi women, gleaning from existing casualty counts, are noticeably neglected, dwarfed by other female heroines: the foreign service woman, the suicide bomber and - not least - men in combat boots. The hierarchy that places occupying forces at a higher rank than occupied populations has long rendered Iraqi life inconsequential, or the death of its people 'inevitable', and therefore, ungrievable. However, this alone does not account for the absence of Iraq's female dead. More fundamentally, what purpose does their exclusion from death counts serve, and when and why are female wartime casualties logged?. © 2018 Intellect Ltd Article. English language.

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LA - en SN - 1751-2867 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijcis.12.1.23_1 ID - ref1 ER -