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Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic / edited by Lois Beck and Guity Nashat.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Beck, Lois, 1944-
Nashat, Guity, 1937-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women--Iran--History.
Women.
Women's rights.
History.
Women in development.
Iran.
Women--Iran--Biography.
Women in development--Iran--History.
Women--Political activity--Ireland--History.
Women--Political activity.
Ireland.
Women's rights--Iran--History.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
Summary:
The role of women in Iran has often been downplayed or obscured, particularly in the modern era. This volume demonstrates that women have long played important roles in different facets of Iranian society. Together with its companion, Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, this volume completes a two-book project on the central importance of Iranian women from pre-Islamic times through the creation and establishment of the Islamic Republic. It includes essays from various disciplines by prominent scholars who examine women's roles in politics, society, and culture and the rise and development of the women's movement before and during the Islamic Republic. Several contributors address the issue of regional, ethnic, linguistic, and tribal diversity in Iran, which has long contained complex, heterogenous societies.
Contents:
Marriage in the Qajar period / Guity Nashat
Reflections in the mirror, how each saw the other : women in the nineteenth century / Shireen Mahdavi
The origins and development of the women's movement in Iran, 1906-41 / Mansoureh Ettehadieh
The women's organization of Iran : evolutionary politics and revolutionary change / Mahnaz Afkhami
The role of women members of parliament, 1963-88 / Haleh Esfandiari
Women and labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam
Labor-force participation of women in contemporary Iran / Amir Mehryar, Gholamali Farjadi, and Mohammad Tabibian
Sexuality, rights, and Islam : competing gender discourses in postrevolutionary Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Rural women's history : a case study from Boir Ahmad / Erika Friedl
Qashqa'i women in postrevolutionary Iran / Lois Beck.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0252029372
0252071891
OCLC:
53356655

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