Women and politics in Iran : veiling, unveiling, and reveiling / Hamideh Sedghi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sedghi, Hamideh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Iran--Social conditions.

Women.

Women (Islamic law)--Iran.

Women (Islamic law).

Women's rights--Iran.

Women's rights.

Feminism--Iran.

Feminism.

Sex role--Iran.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Women & Politics in Iran

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to the consolidation of state power. Sedghi links politics and culture with economics to present an integrated analysis of the private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Transliteration and References; Introduction; Part I Women in Early Twentieth-Century Iran; 1 The Qajar Dynasty, Patriarchal Households, and Women; Part II Women in the Kingdom of the Peacock Throne; 2 The Pahlavi Dynasty as a Centralizing Patriarchy; 3 Economic Development and the Gender Division of Labor; 4 The State and Gender: Repression, Reform, and Family Legislation; 5 Women and the State; Part III Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran; 6 Women, the 1979 Revolution, and the Restructuring of Patriarchy

7 The Gender Division of Labor8 Politics and Women's Resistance; Conclusion; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Interviews; Documents, Books, and Articles; Newspaper and Magazine Articles; Films, Videos, Radio Reports, and Web Sites; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-320) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17484-8

1-280-95971-1

9786610959716

0-511-29657-6

1-139-13067-6

0-511-29580-4

0-511-29423-9

0-511-51038-1

0-511-29503-0

OCLC:

476086825