Gender in contemporary Iran [electronic resource] : pushing the boundaries / edited by Roksana Bahramitash and Eric Hooglund.
This book examines gender and the transformation of contemporary Iran.€In particular it documents the changes in women's lives, challenging the idea that the revolution put back the clock for women and showing€how they have now become agents of social change rather than victims.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Series: | Iranian studies (London, England) ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Authority, modernity and gender-relevant legislation in Iran / Louise Halper
- 2. Gendering Shi'ism in post-revolutionary Iran / Azadeh Kian
- 3. Women and social protest in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam
- 4. Exploring women's experience of higher education and the changing nature of gender relations in Iran / Goli M. Rezai-Rashti
- 5. Exclusionary cartographies: gender liberation and the Iranian blogosphere / Niki Akhavan
- 6. Areas of Iranian women's voice and influence / Jaleh Taheri
- 7. Post-revolutionary Iranian youth: the case of Qom and the new culture of ambivalence / Farhad Khosrokhavar
- 8. Changing attitudes among women in rural Iran / Eric Hooglund
- 9. Women's employment trends: advance or retreat? / Shala Kazemipour
- 10. Extra legal/informal settlements: does gender matter? / Zohreh Fanni
- 11. Iran within a regional context: socio-demographic transformations and effects on women's status / Elhum Haghighat-Sordellini.