Women and the Islamic Republic - How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State

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

List of contents

1. State formation and citizenship: an investigation beyond a eurocentric gaze; 2. Reflecting on an idealised past: memory and women's rights struggles in post-revolutionary Iran; 3. Revolutionary citizens: the confrontation of power and spiritual acts of citizenship from 1980–88; 4. The body in isolation: morality and reconstruction of the nation in wartime; 5. The aftermath of war: wives and daughters of martyrs, and the post-1988 state; 6. Iran's hezbollah and citizenship politics: the surprises of islamisation projects in post-2009 Iran; 7. Conclusion: gendered citizenship and conditioning of the state.

About the author

Shirin Saeidi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas. She has published articles in journals including International Journal of Middle East Studies, International Studies Review, and Millennium: Journal of International Studies. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Citizenship Studies.

Summary

Based on extensive interviews and oral histories as well as archival sources, this book challenges the dominant masculine theorizations of state-making in post-revolutionary Iran. Offering a comprehensive study on citizenship formation, it reveals the centrality of non-elite women's participation in the process of citizenship formation.

Product details

• Authors: Shirin Saeidi, Shirin (University of Arkansas) Saeidi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009013000
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0901300-0
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Middle Eastern history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state