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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814358403321

Autore

Kashani-Sabet Firoozeh <1967->

Titolo

Conceiving citizens : women and the politics of motherhood in Iran / / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-19-991316-1

0-19-971893-8

0-19-025429-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/89155

Soggetti

Women - Social conditions - Iran

Motherhood - Political aspects - Iran

Women - Sexual behavior - Iran

Women - Health and hygiene - Iran

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Hygiene and Citizenship; 1. Healing Iran: Hygiene and Social Change in the Qajar Era; 2. Population Politics: Infant Mortality and the "Crisis" of Midwifery; PART TWO: Marriage, Maternity, and Sexuality; 3. From Celibacy to Companionship: The Evolution of Persian Marriages; 4. Sexual Mores, Social Lives: The Impact of Venereal Disease; 5. Giving Birth: Modern Nursing and Reproductive Politics; 6. Schooling Mothers: Patriotic Education and Women's "Renewal"; 7. Defrocking the Nation: Unveiling and the Politics of Dress

PART THREE: Politics and Reproduction8. From Mothers to Voters: Suffrage, Literacy, and Family Dynamics; 9. Managing Birth: Family Planning and Health Care; 10. Civil Liberties, Civic Wombs: Women in the Islamic Republic; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

CONCEIVING CITIZENS places women and their role as mothers of the nation as central to the history of Iran during successive regimes in the



19th and 20th centuries.