基本説明
Documents the changes in women's lives, challenging the idea that the revolution put back the clock for women and showing how they have now become agents of social change rather than victims.
Full Description
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 portrayed in monolithic stereotypes in the international media. Thematically arranged sections explore discourses around gender and the impact of these discourses on women; the gendered impact of educational, employment, communications, and cultural changes; changing gender attitudes among the post-revolutionary generation of youth; and the ways economic changes have been affecting women.
Providing an important basis for understanding social and political developments in a country that has been a focus of international attention for much of the last decade, this collection will be an important reference for scholars of Iranian studies, gender studies, political science and sociology.
Contents
Introduction: The Case for a Gendered Analysis of Contemporary Iran 1. Authority, Modernity and Gender-Relevant Legislation in Iran 2. Gendering Shi'ism in Post-revolutionary Iran 3. Women and Social Protest in the Islamic Republic of Iran 4. Exploring Women's Experience of Higher Education and the Changing Nature of Gender Relations in Iran 5. Exclusionary Cartographies: Gender Liberation and the Iranian Blogosphere 6. Areas of Iranian Women's Voice and Influence 7. Post-revolutionary Iranian Youth: Case of Qom and the New Culture of Ambivalence 8. Changing Attitudes among Women in Rural Iran 9. Women's Employment Trends: Advance or Retreat? 10. Extra-lagal/Informal Settlements: Does Gender Matter 11. Iran in a Regional Context: Socio-Demographic Transformations and Effects on Women's Social Status
