Between 2 Rocks: Iran - Canada; Iranian Immigrant Women Speak Out - Hojati, Zahra
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After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iranian women encountered more constraint in their private and public lives. Education, which they treated as a form of liberation, played a significant role in their lives. Canada is in the front line to attract such women. This book is a reflection of the voices of some of these educated women who immigrated to Canada to find their true place as liberated and conscious women. They are looking for justice and equity, the issues that they were deprived of in Iran. Is Canada capable of providing such an environment for them? That is the question this book tries to address.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iranian women encountered more constraint in their private and public lives. Education, which they treated as a form of liberation, played a significant role in their lives. Canada is in the front line to attract such women. This book is a reflection of the voices of some of these educated women who immigrated to Canada to find their true place as liberated and conscious women. They are looking for justice and equity, the issues that they were deprived of in Iran. Is Canada capable of providing such an environment for them? That is the question this book tries to address.
Autorenporträt
Zahra Hojati(Ph.D,University of Toronto) was born in Shiraz, Iran. She immigrated with her family to Canada, in September 2000. Zahra is presently working as an instructor in the Sociology Department at Ryerson University in Toronto, as well as lecturer at the University of Toronto at Scarborough in the Historical and Cultural Studies Department.