Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran

In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their position redefined, by the political transformations of twentieth-century Iran.

List of contents

Introduction: Marginalisation of gender and approaches to women in Middle Eastern studies; Part I. The Discourse of Modernity: 1. Social diversity on women's issues in nineteenth-century Iran; 2. Women and the ear of constitutionalism; 3. Women and the era of nation building; 4. Women and the era of nationalism; 5. Women and the era of modernisation; Part II. The Discourse of Revolution: 6. Gender as a revolutionary discourse; 7. Women and the political transition from modernisation to Islamisation; Part III. The Discourse of Islamisation: 8. The Islamic construction of family; 9. Women and national participation in the Islamic Republic; 10. Policing the family; Conclusion.

Summary

In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their position redefined, by the political transformations of twentieth-century Iran.

Product details

• Authors: Parvin Paidar
• Assisted by: Julia A. Clancy-Smith (Editor), Charles Tripp (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521473408
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47340-8
• No. of pages: 422
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 796 g
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies; Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories