Liora Hendelman-Baavur (Tel-Aviv University)

Creating the Modern Iranian Woman

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Produktbeschreibung

This examination of the Iranian popular culture and women's role within this challenges familiar western assumptions about the complexities of Iranian popular culture. Presenting a wealth of information drawn from a diverse set of sources, it situates Iranian women's magazines within their broader economic, social, political and cultural context.

Produktdetails

• The Global Middle East
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781108726931
• ISBN-10: 1108726933
• Artikelnr.: 62233157

Autorenporträt

Liora Hendelman-Baavur is a Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. She is the co-author (with David Menashri) of Iran: Anatomy of a Revolution (2009, in Hebrew).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Magazines in the Making: 1. The legacy of the past
2. Circulation, commercialization and state intervention
3. Reproduction, patronage and readership
Part II. Agents of Correlation and Change: 4. Family guidance, domestic technology and the modern housewife
5. Youth culture and the new bi-hejab girl
6. Exogamy, brain drain and the western woman
7. Queen, working mother and the making of the Royal family.