Title: Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister
Subtitle: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran
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.
Subjects: Feminism, Islamic fundamentalism, Patriarchaat (sociologie), SOCIAL SCIENCE, Imperialism, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Islam, Colonies, asia