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Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran

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ISBN-10: 052159572X

ISBN-13: 9780521595728

Edition: 1997

Authors: Parvin Paidar, Julia A. Clancy-Smith, Israel Gershoni, Roger Owen, Yezid Sayigh

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In this challenging and authoritative analysis of the role of Indian women, Parvin Paidar considers the ways in which they have been affected by the evolutionary and revolutionary transformations of twentieth-century Iran.
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Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/24/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.94" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430

Roger Owen is A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Introduction: Marginalisation of gender and approaches to women in Middle Eastern studies
The Discourse of Modernity
Social diversity on women's issues in nineteenth-century Iran
Women and the ear of constitutionalism
Women and the era of nation building
Women and the era of nationalism
Women and the era of modernisation
The Discourse of Revolution
Gender as a revolutionary discourse
Women and the political transition from modernisation to Islamisation
The Discourse of Islamisation
The Islamic construction of family
Women and national participation in the Islamic Republic
Policing the family
Conclusion