Gender in contemporary Iran pushing the boundaries /

Gender in contemporary Iran pushing the boundaries / [electronic resource] : edited by Roksana Bahramitash and Eric Hooglund. - London : Routledge, 2011. - xv, 208 p. : ill. - Iranian studies ; 10 . - Iranian studies (London, England) ; 10. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Authority, modernity and gender-relevant legislation in Iran / Louise Halper -- 2.Gendering Shi'ism in post-revolutionary Iran / Azadeh Kian -- 3.Women and social protest in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam -- 4.Exploring women's experience of higher education and the changing nature of gender relations in Iran / Goli M. Rezai-Rashti -- 5.Exclusionary cartographies: gender liberation and the Iranian blogosphere / Niki Akhavan -- 6.Areas of Iranian women's voice and influence / Jaleh Taheri -- 7.Post-revolutionary Iranian youth: the case of Qom and the new culture of ambivalence / Farhad Khosrokhavar -- 8.Changing attitudes among women in rural Iran / Eric Hooglund -- 9.Women's employment trends: advance or retreat? / Shala Kazemipour -- 10.Extra legal/informal settlements: does gender matter? / Zohreh Fanni -- 11.Iran within a regional context: socio-demographic transformations and effects on women's status / Elhum Haghighat-Sordellini.


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