Gender in contemporary Iran : pushing the boundaries / / edited by Roksana Bahramitash and Eric Hooglund

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/89155
• Soggetto topico: Women - Iran - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: Iran Social conditions 1997-
• Altri autori: BahramitashRoksana <1956-> HooglundEric J <1944-> (Eric James)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines gender and the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran, documenting the changes in women's lives and showing how women have now become agents of social change rather than victims. Bringing together the detailed primary research of a number of eminent scholars working in Iran, this collection provides unique perspectives on the past decade in Iranian society. Chapters document and examine how different Iranian groups and classes are negotiating, resisting, and pressing for political and social change, to explore the complexity of a society that often is portr
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender in contemporary Iran
• ISBN: 1-136-82425-1; 1-283-10441-5; 9786613104410; 1-136-82426-X; 0-203-83071-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811968303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Iranian studies (London, England) ; ; 10.