Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

Conceiving Citizens (eBook, ePUB)

Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While Iranian women have most frequently been viewed through the politics of veiling, Conceiving Citizens interprets modern Iranian politics and society through the history of women's health and sexuality. Drawing on archival documents and manuscript sources from Iran and elsewhere, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet illustrates how debates over hygiene, reproductive politics, and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries explained demographic trends and put women at the center of nationalist debates. Exploring women's lives under successive regimes, she chronicles the hygiene campaigns that cast mothers as custodians of a healthy civilization; debates over female education, employment, and political rights; government policies on contraception and population control; and tensions between religion and secularism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199913169
• Artikelnr.: 68616109

Autorenporträt

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Associate Professor of History and director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Part One: Hygiene and Citizenship
* Chapter 1 Healing Iran: Hygiene and Social Change in the Qajar Era
* Chapter 2 Population Politics: Epidemics and the "Crisis" of
Midwifery
* Part Two: Marriage, Maternity, and Sexuality
* Chapter 3 From Celibacy to Companionship: The Evolution of Persian
Marriages
* Chapter 4 Sexual Mores, Social Lives: Maternalism and Venereal
Disease
* Chapter 5 Giving Birth: Modern Nursing and Reproductive Politics
* Chapter 6 Schooling Mothers: Patriotic Education and Women's
'Renewal'
* Chapter 7 Defrocking the Nation: Unveiling and the Politics of Dress
* Part Three: Politics and Reproduction
* Chapter 8 From Mothers to Voters: Suffrage, Literacy, and Family
Dynamics
* Chapter 9 Managing Birth: Family Planning and Healthcare
* Chapter 10 Civil Liberties, Civic Wombs: Women in the Islamic
Republic
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Bibliography