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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781899503321

Titolo

Veiled employment [[electronic resource] ] : Islamism and the political economy of women's employment in Iran / / edited by Roksana Bahramitash & Hadi Salehi Esfahani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, N.Y., : Syracuse University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8156-5119-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Contemporary issues in the Middle East

Altri autori (Persone)

BahramitashRoksana <1956->

EsfahaniHadi Salehi

Disciplina

331.40955

Soggetti

Women - Employment - Iran - History

Women - Employment - Political aspects - Iran

Sexual division of labor - Iran

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gender and globalization : the Iranian experience / Jennifer C. Olmsted -- Modernization, revolution, and Islamism : political economy of women's employment / Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani -- From postrevolution to the reform : gender politics and employment / Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani -- The transformation of the female labor market / Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani -- The effects of international trade on gender inequality in Iran : the case of women carpet weavers / Zahra Karimi -- Female-headed households in Iran : microcredit versus charity / Roksana Bahramitash -- Veiled economy : gender and the informal sector / Roksana Bahramitash and Shahla Kazemipour -- Iran's missing working women / Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam -- Iranian immigrant women's labor market strategies : a complex and entangled process / Zohreh Mirzadegan Niknia.