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

Abstract

Throughout the history of thought, patriarchal regimes have sided against the existence of women.  In particular, the discourses of knowledge and the politics of masculine power, along with cultural and ideological concepts, contributed to creating a cultural history for women through the biological illusion of the superiority of masculinity over femininity. As a result, the hierarchical relationship between women and men was determined from the perspective of male domination, starting from the perspective of the natural structure, which is physical strength. 

Therefore, the feminist resistance seeks to dismantle the patriarchal authority and to demolish the transcendental truth that was characterized by its patriarchal discourse at the level of language and culture in spreading oppressive perceptions towards the existence of women.  The research monitors the resistance and the extent of its escapism and submission to patriarchal authority as it resists cultural prejudices in the emergence of its resistant female self in carving a feminine written form that corresponds to its feminine nature, based on the principle of difference rather than symmetry and identification with memory. Women in the history of modern Iraqi feminist poetry by tracking the poetic awareness of women writers in shaping their knowledge of man’s culture.