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Women in Iran Gender Politics in the Islamic Republic
Hammed Shahidian
Book Code: GM1476
ISBN: 0-313-31476-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31476-6
320 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/2002
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Women's Studies
Series Number: 197
Description: Blending social scientific theories about feminism, social movements, and culture with the specifics of the Iranian situation, this volume examines changes in the structure of patriarchy from the 1960s to the present by looking at domestic labor, employment, education, politics, culture, and sexuality. Combining personal narratives and socio-philosophical discussion, Shahidian focuses on policies that shape gender relations, primarily on the Islamic government's strategies to re-strengthen patriarchal practices. A nascent secular feminism in Iran opts for far-reaching changes in gender relations, but faces serious internal and external constraints. This book studies gender discourses in Iran as the interplay of ideologies and socio-historical conditions. Iranian gender and cultural politics have emerged through lively, often brutally fierce, battles over symbols, meanings, and practices--battles involving Islamist, reformist, and secular women activists. Such conflicts have produced a damaging "dual society" of public and private forums. This bifurcation yields not peaceful coexistence, but subjugation to the Islamic state's plans. Only by rejecting so-called reformist measures, which, the author contends, merely continue the subordination of women, can equality between the sexes be achieved.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Gender Politics and Revolution
  • Refashioning Patriarchy: From Private toward Public Patriarchy
  • Gender Crisis: Preventing the Future
  • Gender in Revolution: "Shrouding Freedom"
  • Gender Ambivalence: "Cultural Imperialism" and Representative Revolutionism
  • Patriarchy Blessed: Gender Teleology and Violence
  • From Mothers' Bosoms: Patriarchy Vacillating between Private and Public
  • Volatile Times: Gender, Coercion, and the Possibilities of Resistance
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002016099
LCC Class: HQ1735
Dewey Class: 305
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