Veiled employment
Subtitle: Islamism and the political economy of women's employment in Iran
By: edited by Roksana Bahramitash & Hadi Salehi Esfahani
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Contemporary issues in the Middle East; Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780815632139
Subjects: Employment; Women; Political aspects; Sexual division of labor; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and globalization : the Iranian experience / Jennifer C. Olmsted; title: Modernization, revolution, and Islamism : political economy of women's employment / Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani; title: From postrevolution to the reform : gender politics and employment / Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani; title: The transformation of the female labor market / Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani; title: The effects of international trade on gender inequality in Iran : the case of women carpet weavers / Zahra Karimi; title: Female-headed households in Iran : microcredit versus charity / Roksana Bahramitash; title: Veiled economy : gender and the informal sector / Roksana Bahramitash and Shahla Kazemipour; title: Iran's missing working women / Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam; title: Iranian immigrant women's labor market strategies : a complex and entangled process / Zohreh Mirzadegan Niknia.