Shirin Saeidi

Women and the Islamic Republic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Women and the Islamic Republic's central argument is simple: If we shift our gaze from institutions and elite political contestations to everyday encounters, we can see how the Islamic Republic's hybrid governance structure produces citizens who cross, abide, and (at times) manipulate the state's formal boundaries. This pushes the post-revolutionary state toward a balancing act to pacify its female population"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781316515761
• ISBN-10: 1316515761
• Artikelnr.: 62050594

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.