Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister
Subtitle: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780520243453
Subjects: Feminism; Islamic fundamentalism; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science; Sociology - General; Sociology; Iran; Middle East - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Anthropology - General; Colonialism; Islam.; gtt
First sentence: In 2000, while on a research trip to Paris, I visited an Iranian friend.
Description: "Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister as keys to understanding the invention of the Islamic ummat as a modern fraternal community. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant binaries of modern and traditional, West and East, secular and religious, and civilized and barbaric."--Book cover.