Women And Politics In Iran

Author : Hamideh Sedghi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0511296576

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Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling and Reveiling by Hamideh Sedghi Pdf

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.

Author : Tara Povey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134779963

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Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran by Tara Povey Pdf

This book examines the women's movement in Iran and its role in contesting gender relations since the 1979 revolution. Looking at examples from politics, law, employment, environment, media and religion and the struggle for democracy, this book demonstrates how material conditions have important social and political consequences for the lives of women in Iran and exposes the need to challenge the dominant theoretical perspectives on gender and Islam. A truly fascinating insider's look at the experiences of Iranian women as academics, political and civil society activists, this book counters the often inaccurate and misleading stereotyping of Iranian women to present a vibrant and diverse picture of these women's lives. A welcome and unique addition to the vibrant and growing literature on women, Islam, development, democracy and feminisms.

Author : Hamideh Sedghi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0511294239

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Women and Politics in Iran by Hamideh Sedghi Pdf

Why were urban women veiled in early 1900s, unveiled 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after 1979 revolution? This question is the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Sedghi gives new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. She places contention over women at center of political struggle between secular and religious forces and shows that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to consolidation of state power. She links politics and culture with economics to present an analysis of private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power. Sedghi incorporates women in Iranian history, focuses on state-gender-religion relations and addresses women's responses to Iranian state, women's agency, and their resistance-- Publisher's description.

Author : Sanam Vakil
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441197344

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Women and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Sanam Vakil Pdf

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Author : Arzoo Osanloo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691135472

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The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran by Arzoo Osanloo Pdf

Osanloo Arzoo presents an ethnographic study that explores how conceptions of liberal entitlements fused with a discourse of equality in Islam in the post-revolutionary era to inform & shape women's perceptions of rights.

Author : Nazanin Shahrokni
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520304284

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Women in Place by Nazanin Shahrokni Pdf

While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing. Women in Place offers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and women’s rights in contemporary Iran. Author Nazanin Shahrokni takes us onto gender-segregated buses, inside a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of stadiums where women are banned from attending men’s soccer matches. The Islamic character of the state, she demonstrates, has had to coexist, fuse, and compete with technocratic imperatives, pragmatic considerations regarding the viability of the state, international influences, and global trends. Through a retelling of the past four decades of state policy regulating gender boundaries, Women in Place challenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces and pushes us to contemplate the changing place of women in a social order shaped by capitalism, state-sanctioned Islamism, and debates about women’s rights. Shahrokni throws into sharp relief the ways in which the state strives to constantly regulate and contain women’s bodies and movements within the boundaries of the “proper” but simultaneously invests in and claims credit for their expanded access to public spaces.

Author : Sanam Vakil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441117380

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Women and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Sanam Vakil Pdf

Women and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran looks at the rise and role of female activism in Iran since the 1979 Revolution. Since 1979 women have played a decisive role in elections and assumed political posts. This study assesses this role as well as the impact of domestic and international policies on women's activism, highlighting the contradictions between politics and religion within the Islamic Republic. It also seeks to evaluate political and economic developments and the transformations in civil society, including the development of a gender conscious society. Women and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran features original research by Sanam Vakil, an Iranian-American scholar, who conducted interviews with women activists, politicians, journalists, clerics and students in Iran, Europe and the U.S. and used primary sources to specifically links women's activism to the domestic political changes in Iran. The book will be an essential resource for anyone studying Iranian politics and seeking to understand better the internal political and social dynamics in Iran and the critical role that women play.

Author : Parvin Paidar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 052159572X

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Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran by Parvin Paidar Pdf

In a challenging and authoritative analysis of the role of Iranian women in the political process, Parvin Paidar considers the ways they have been affected by the evolutionary and revolutionary transformations of twentieth-century Iran. In so doing, she demonstrates how political reorganisation has of necessity redefined the position of women, and that, contrary to the view of conventional scholarship, gender issues are fundamental to the political process in contemporary Iran. The implications of the study bear on the broader issues of women in the Middle East and the developing countries generally.

Author : Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195308860

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Conceiving Citizens by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Pdf

The role of women in Iran has commonly been viewed solely through the lens of religion, symbolized by veiled females subordinated by society. In this work, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, an Iranian-American historian, aims to explain how the role of women has been central to national political debates in Iran. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the book examines issues impacting women's lives under successive regimes, including hygiene campaigns that cast mothers as custodians of a healthy civilization; debates over female education, employment, and political rights; conflicts between religion and secularism; the politics of dress; and government policies on contraception and population control. Among the topics she will examine are the development of a women's movement in Iran, perhaps most publicly expressed by Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. The narrative comes up to the present, looking at reproductive rights, the spread of AIDS, and fashion since the Iranian Revolution. -- Publisher description.

Author : Haleh Esfandiari
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0801856191

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Reconstructed Lives by Haleh Esfandiari Pdf

Iranian women tell in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. The Islamic revolution of 1979 transformed all areas of Iranian life. For women, the consequences were extensive and profound, as the state set out to reverse legal and social rights women had won and to dictate many aspects of women's lives, including what they could study and how they must dress and relate to men. Reconstructed Lives presents Iranian women telling in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. Through a series of interviews with professional and working women in Iran—doctors, lawyers, writers, professors, secretaries, businesswomen—Haleh Esfandiari gathers dramatic accounts of what has happened to their lives as women in an Islamic society. She and her informants describe the strategies by which women try to and sometimes succeed in subverting the state's agenda. Esfandiari also provides historical background on the women's movement in Iran. She finds evidence in Iran's experience that even women from "traditional" and working classes do not easily surrender rights or access they have gained to education, career opportunities, and a public role.

Author : Shirin Saeidi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316515761

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Women and the Islamic Republic by Shirin Saeidi Pdf

A study of citizenship formation in post-1979 Iran, examining the centrality of non-elite women's participation in the process.

Author : Mona Tajali
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1474499473

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Women's Political Representation in Iran and Turkey by Mona Tajali Pdf

Provides a comparative study of women's political participation and representation in contemporary Iran and Turkey

Author : Nazanin Shahrokni
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520304277

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Women in Place by Nazanin Shahrokni Pdf

While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing. Women in Place offers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and women’s rights in contemporary Iran. Author Nazanin Shahrokni takes us onto gender-segregated buses, inside a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of stadiums where women are banned from attending men’s soccer matches. The Islamic character of the state, she demonstrates, has had to coexist, fuse, and compete with technocratic imperatives, pragmatic considerations regarding the viability of the state, international influences, and global trends. Through a retelling of the past four decades of state policy regulating gender boundaries, Women in Place challenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces and pushes us to contemplate the changing place of women in a social order shaped by capitalism, state-sanctioned Islamism, and debates about women’s rights. Shahrokni throws into sharp relief the ways in which the state strives to constantly regulate and contain women’s bodies and movements within the boundaries of the “proper” but simultaneously invests in and claims credit for their expanded access to public spaces.

Author : Jyotika Teckchandani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 8177084380

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Islam and Gender Politics in Iran by Jyotika Teckchandani Pdf

This study explores the links between religion, gender, and nation in the context of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). Contrary to popular perception, state, gender, and religion-particularly in Islam-are not monolithic categories; the relationship among them is one of dynamic interactive processes without any fixed pattern. Author Jyotika Teckchandani shows how gender, religion, class, and ideologies interplay for negotiating the privileges and rights of women within the existing polity and power structure of Iran. Contrary to the dominant Western narrative about the perpetual marginalization of women in Iran, the present work claims that contraction or expansion of women's rights and privileges depend upon the nature of the political regime, the strength of the women's movement, and socio-economic dynamics of Iranian society. [Subject: Middle East Studies, Islamic Studies, Gender Studies, Iranian Studies]

Author : Mona Tajali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Iran
ISBN : 1474499481

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Women's Political Representation in Iran and Turkey by Mona Tajali Pdf