1st Edition
Gender in Contemporary Iran Pushing the Boundaries
Introduction: The Case for a Gendered Analysis of Contemporary Iran Roksana Bahramitash and Eric Hooglund 1. Authority, Modernity and Gender-Relevant Legislation in Iran Louise Halper 2. Gendering Shi’ism in Post-revolutionary Iran Azadeh Kian 3. Women and Social Protest in the Islamic Republic of Iran Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam 4. Exploring Women’s Experience of Higher Education and the Changing Nature of Gender Relations in Iran Goli M. Rezai-Rashti 5. Exclusionary Cartographies: Gender Liberation and the Iranian Blogosphere Niki Akhavan 6. Areas of Iranian Women’s Voice and Influence Jaleh Taheri 7. Post-revolutionary Iranian Youth: Case of Qom and the New Culture of Ambivalence Farhad Khosrokhavar 8. Changing Attitudes among Women in Rural Iran Eric Hooglund 9. Women’s Employment Trends: Advance or Retreat? Roksana Bahramitash & Shala Kazemipour 10. Extra-lagal/Informal Settlements: Does Gender Matter Roksana Bahramitash & Zohreh Fanni 11. Iran in a Regional Context: Socio-Demographic Transformations and Effects on Women’s Social Status Elhum Haghighat-Sordellini
Biography
Roksana Bahramitash is Research Director at the Canada Research Chair of Islam, Pluralism and Globalization at the University of Montreal, Canada.
Eric Hooglund is Senior Research Scholar in Contemporary Interpretations of Islam and Muslim Cultures in the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden.
"A thoughtful, insightful look at women's position in Iran today. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."--A. Rassam, CHOICE (January 2012)
"This is a collection with interesting articles, which one hopes will reach a wider audience. Most of the articles included in this collection will be appropriate for upper level undergraduates and graduate students." -- Vika Gardner, Allegheny College, in the Journal of International and Global Studies, 3:1, (November 2011)
