Hilary Falb Kalisman's new article, "Apostles of knowledge: Feminine modernities and the travelling schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq," has been听published in Gender and History.
专STRACT: During the interwar era, nearly all of Iraq's secondary schoolmistresses journeyed to Iraq from other corners of the Arab world. This article examines their extraordinary lives, impact on their students and the feminine modernity that these women represented. Policymakers, officials and intellectuals sought to spread women's education, linking it to a global vision of modern domesticity. In contrast, the schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq, the first women in the region to receive higher education, tied their journeys to their gender, underscoring that travel and a 鈥榤odern鈥� education created a different type of 鈥榥ew woman鈥� who was to be, and to remain, exceptional.
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