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Women in Iran [set]
Hammed Shahidian
ISBN: 0-313-32482-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32482-6
544 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2002
List Price: $196.95 (UK Sterling Price: £135.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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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
About the Author: HAMMED SHAHIDIAN is Honorary Research Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow (2001-2002). He teaches Sociology at the University of Illinois at Springfield, where he was honored with the University Scholar Award. He is also a research associate at the UIS Institute for Public Affairs.
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