Hamideh Sedghi

Women and Politics in Iran (eBook, PDF)

Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling

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Produktbeschreibung

Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to the consolidation of state power. Sedghi links politics and culture with economics to present an integrated analysis of the private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511292637
• Artikelnr.: 38204004

Autorenporträt

Hamideh Sedghi the first Iranian woman in the United States to write on women in Iran from a social science perspective. She has contributed to Encyclopedia Iranica, United Nations publications, New Political Science, Politics and Gender, Socialism and Democracy, and Review of Political Economics among other journals, as well as a few book chapters. Sedghi is the recipient of many awards and honors including the 2005 Christian Bay Award for the Best Paper presented at the American Political Science Association's Caucus for a New Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Women in Early Twentieth Century Iran: 1. The Qajar dynasty, patriarchal households, and women
Part II. Women in the Kingdom of the Peacock Throne: 2. The Pahlavi dynasty as a centralizing patriarchy
3. Economic development and the gender division of labor
4. The state and gender: repression, reform, and family legislation
5. Gender and the state
Part III. Women in the Islamic Republic: 6. The 1979 revolution and the restructuring of patriarchy
7. The gender division of labor
8. Politics and women's resistance.