The Stage of Adolescence: Anticolonial Time, Youth Insurgency, and the Marriage Crisis in Hashimite Iraq

Sara Pursley is associate editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies and author of “Daughters of the Right Path: Family Law, Homosocial Publics, and the Ethics of Intimacy in the Works of Shiʿi Revivalist Bint al-Huda,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 8, no. 2 (2012): 51–77; and “Building the Nation through the Production of Difference: The Gendering of Education in Iraq, 1928–1958,” in Writing the Modern History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges, ed. Jordi Tejel, Peter Sluglett, Riccardo Bocco, and Hamit Bozarslan (2012).