Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic
By: edited by Lois Beck and Guity Nashat
Contributors: Beck, Lois, 1944-; Nashat, Guity, 1937-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Women -- Iran -- History; Women -- Iran -- Biography; Women in development -- Iran -- History; Women in politics -- Ireland -- History; Women's rights -- Iran -- History
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Marriage in the Qajar period / Guity Nashat; title: Reflections in the mirror, how each saw the other : women in the nineteenth century / Shireen Mahdavi; title: The origins and development of the women's movement in Iran, 1906-41 / Mansoureh Ettehadieh; title: The women's organization of Iran : evolutionary politics and revolutionary change / Mahnaz Afkhami; title: The role of women members of parliament, 1963-88 / Haleh Esfandiari; title: Women and labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam; title: Labor-force participation of women in contemporary Iran / Amir Mehryar, Gholamali Farjadi, and Mohammad Tabibian; title: Sexuality, rights, and Islam : competing gender discourses in postrevolutionary Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini; title: Rural women's history : a case study from Boir Ahmad / Erika Friedl; title: Qashqa'i women in postrevolutionary Iran / Lois Beck