Analyzing the maternal experiences of nurses in war zones during the Iraq-Iran war

The issue of the social role of women in the imposed war has different dimensions and fields of study that have been neglected publicly over time. The current research focuses on the activism of women nurses in war zones with the aim of expressing the unsaid, paying attention to the importance of their professional performance and producing local knowledge in the field of motherhood studies, focusing on their experience of motherhood.
Data were collected and qualitatively analyzed through library studies and interviews with nurses. Their lived experiences were categorized in to two groups: motherhood at risk and divided motherhood. The agency of women in performing timely treatment and patient clinical care, both as a job duty and as a volunteer, has shown a priority to play a professional role despite the pressures of fulfilling the role of a mother during active motherhood and implies a conscious choice and activism in a dangerous situation. Having social responsibility towards the warriors and wounded civilians, social support of family and colleagues, including the major dependents of mother-nurses experience. The pressure caused by the multiplicity of roles, as well as the burden of the role, has resulted in exorbitant psychological and physical consequences both during the occurrence and in the form of chronic illnesses in the following years.
However, how mothering beyond imagination and guidelines of motherhood ideology as a social structure is influenced by the vision and discursive values of holy defense is the important findings of this research.