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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299362303321

Autore

Bahramitash Roksana

Titolo

Low-Income Islamist Women and Social Economy in Iran / / by Roksana Bahramitash, Atena Sadegh, Negin Sattari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

1-137-52539-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (V, 76 p.)

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Regional economics

Spatial economics

International economics

Ethnology—Middle East 

Sociology

Regional/Spatial Science

International Economics

Middle Eastern Culture

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Social Economy and Women in Iran -- 3. Women’s Role in the Political Economy: An Overview -- 4. Islamist, Islamic and Muslim Women -- 5. Informal Networks of Religious Women and Social Economy -- 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an innovative analysis of the solidarity/social economy among low-income religious women in Iran. For years, the role of low-income women in community care and poverty reduction has been underestimated and under-researched in the broader academic community, due to the “invisible” nature of these informal and predominantly religious networks. As economic hardship in Iran increases, women in the community have mobilized to bring assistance to those struggling to make ends meet. The culmination of years of fieldwork in different parts of the country, this book sheds light on how religious women form the backbone of Iran’s social safety net as the



welfare state fails and social protection policies dwindle.