Shirin Saeidi

Women and the Islamic Republic

How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on extensive interviews and oral histories as well as archival sources, this book challenges the dominant masculine theorizations of state-making in post-revolutionary Iran. Offering a comprehensive study on citizenship formation, it reveals the centrality of non-elite women's participation in the process of citizenship formation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009013000
• ISBN-10: 1009013009
• Artikelnr.: 70204714

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.