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Ways to survive, battles to win : Iranian women exiles in the Netherlands and United States / Halleh Ghorashi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ghorashi, Halleh.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--Netherlands--Social conditions.
- Women immigrants.
- Iranians--Netherlands--Social conditions.
- Iranians.
- Women immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Iranians--United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Netherlands.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 219 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science, [2002]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Anthropology in Exile 3
- A Revolution that Changed Lives 5
- Identity between Change and Continuity 7
- Struggles in a Known and an Unknown Context 11
- Sadness and Passion: Both a Researcher and a Political Activist 14
- Mirroring Effect of Life Stories 16
- The Sun Had Died 18
- Chapter 2 Configuration of Identities 25
- Identity: A Contested Concept 25
- Identity: A Process of Becoming 27
- Multiple Identities 29
- Identity and Situated Agency 31
- To Define and to be Defined 32
- Chapter 3 Souls and Mirrors 37
- Anthropology and Invisible Power 38
- Deconstruction and Delegitimization of the Cartesian Subject 40
- New Perspectives within Anthropology 41
- Farewell to Dichotomies 45
- Representation and Power 48
- Part II. The Lost Home 51
- Chapter 4 Writing Past: When Home Became Hell 53
- Short Historical Background of the Protest 53
- Women in the Pahlavi Era (1925-1979) 58
- Transitional Phase: "The Spring of Freedom" 62
- Institutionalized Phase: The Period of Suppression 71
- Chapter 5 The Spring of Freedom: Revolutionary Years 75
- When Politics Became Everything 77
- Becoming Politically Active 79
- Age and Identity Formation 84
- Emergence of New Ideals: Death Becomes Yours 88
- To Be a Woman: Gender and Politics 92
- Chapter 6 Living in Hell: The Years of Suppression 101
- The Years of Horror 102
- The Death of Ideals 104
- When Being Political Became a Crime 111
- The Lost Home inside the Home 116
- Part III. Exile 119
- Chapter 7 Exiles and Diasporas 121
- Victimizing Refugees 122
- Exile and Liminality 125
- Nomads 134
- Chapter 8 Writing Present 137
- The United States and the Netherlands 138
- Approaches toward Migration 147
- Continuity or Discontinuity: A Contextual Comparison 152
- Chapter 9 How Present is the Past? 161
- What Makes these Women Different? 162
- The First Years in Exile 165
- Continuous Strangers: Iranian Women in the Netherlands 169
- Irangeles: A Better Home Abroad? 179
- The Differences between the Netherlands and the United States 184
- Chapter 10 The Home and the Future 187
- Diasporic Way of Approaching Home 189
- Homeland in the Netherlands 193
- Homeland in the United States 195
- What About Tomorrow? 199
- Contextualizing the Future 205
- Chapter 11 Space for Hybridity 209
- Hybridity and Essentialism 210
- The Limits of Practical Hybridity 211
- Intentional Hybridity 216
- Hybridity at the Discursive Level 218
- Multiculturalism and Hybridity 231
- Epilogue: Positioning: Research that Changed my Life 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-214) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1590332350
- OCLC:
- 56352862
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