Aspects of Rural Women’s Life in the Lower Euphrates Region during the Monarchy in Iraq (1921 _ 1958)

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal introduce the conditions of rural women in the lower Euphrates region in southern Iraq, who suffered from difficult and miserable conditions due to repeated wars and displacement as a result of unstable conditions, neglect, and lack of health care, in addition to the difficult and harsh tribal customs imposed on rural women, as well as the great burdens that were imposed on them. She fell on her shoulders inside and outside the home, and other responsibilities related to agriculture, grazing, and agricultural production, including animal care, etc., as she lived in dark huts made of mud, reeds, papyrus, or palm leaves, which did not protect them from the cold of winter or the heat of summer. Thus, rural women were deprived of She has the most basic rights to express herself and her right to education or political participation. She is also deprived of her legal right to the inheritance of her parents or her husband by virtue of tribal traditions, and the authority of the older brother or husband’s children by virtue of polygamy, which was very common in Iraqi rural society. Although it bears the majority of the burdens of life in rural society in general.