The politics of women's rights in Iran
By: Arzoo Osanloo.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780691135465; 9780691135472
Subjects: Khātamī, Muḥammad; Women's rights -- Iran; Islamic modernism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A genealogy of "women's rights" in Iran; title: Producing states: women's participation and the dialogics of rights; title: Qur'anic meetings: "doing the cultural work"; title: Courting rights: rights talk in Islamico-civil family court; title: Practice and affect: writing/righting the law; title: Human rights: the politics and prose of discursive sites; title: Conclusion "women's rights" as exhibition at the brink of war.