resistance of Iraqi feminist poetry 1960-2020, a cultural study Gender

Abstract

Gender resistance seeks to deconstruct the categories of gender identity formulated by the patriarchal system as an inevitable reality in the existence of women.  Gender resistance begins with reformulating the concept of femininity produced by masculine prejudices as a totalitarian system that dominates the difference of women and reduces them to a fixed gender identity. 

Therefore, resistance seeks to subvert gender, as the feminist philosopher Judith Butle put it, because it doubled the cultural oppression on the existence of women and their bodies.  Therefore, the research monitors women's resistance in the history of modern Iraqi feminist poetry by tracing their accomplished act of resistance in dismantling gender perceptions culturally through female writing, which is one of the post-feminist starting points in rewriting the body and its discovery by feminist perception in correcting the concept of sexuality, which negatively affected the effectiveness of  the female body in the positive response to the sex as a taboo, and the resistance centered in ridding the body of the ideological and cultural deposits that reduced it to being an object in the masculine culture.  The writing of the female body is represented as achieving a gender identity stemming from a feminist cognitive awareness in building a positive female identity whose theme is difference and inseparable there is a woman's being about her body.