The making of the modern Iranian woman : gender, state policy, and popular culture, 1865-1946 / Camron Michael Amin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amin, Camron Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Iran--History.

Women.

Feminism--Iran--History.

Feminism.

Women's rights--Iran--History.

Women's rights.

Iran--Social policy--18th century.

Iran.

Iran--Social policy--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2002]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

''Combining the best of archival research, oral history, and textual analysis, . . . Amin's text offers new avenues of inquiry into the relationship between modern states and the lives of their female citizens.''--Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington ''An imaginative and well-documented study of the development of modern Iranian womanhood [that] demonstrates the developing nature of the patriarchal obstacles in the way of women's emancipation as much as it reveals the dynamism and complexity of the Women's Awakening.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The "Women's Awakening" Reconsidered 1

2. Tradition and Renewal 16

3. Imagining the Modern Iranian Woman 48

4. Unveiling and Its Discontents 80

5. Renewal's Bride 114

6. The Capable Woman 142

7. The Limits of Emancipation 189

8. Breaking with Male Guardianship 215

9. The Legacy of the Women's Awakening 246.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-312) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-3126-5

OCLC:

476046331