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ISBN-10 : 0700715096
ISBN-13 : 9780700715091
Author: Sarah Ansari, Vanessa Martin
Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of growing female literacy, and the consequences of developments since 1979.
1 Introduction
Notes
2 Women, Shiʿism and Cuisine in Iran
Notes
3 CMS Women Missionaries in Iran, 1891–1934: Attitudes Towards Islam and Muslim Women
Introduction
Contextualizing the views of the CMS women in Iran
CMS women, Islam and the Muslims of Iran
Muslims and Islam, or the particular versus the general
Islam and its unacceptable social manifestations
Contextualizing and reinterpreting missionary opinions
Conclusion: An assessment of missionary attitudes towards Islam and Iran
Notes
4 A Presbyterian Vocation to Reform Gender Relations in Iran: The Career of Annie Stocking Boyce
Annie Woodman Stocking Boyce
Alam-i-Nesvan
Other work
Conclusions
Notes
5 Women and Journalism in Iran
Notes
6 From the Royal Harem to a Post-modern Islamic Society: Some Considerations on Women Prose Writers in Iran from Qajar Times to the 1990s
Westernization and specificity
Forms and themes
Social commitment and connotations
Conclusion
Notes
7 Gender and the Army of Knowledge in Pahlavi Iran, 1968–1979
Introduction
Female education
The Women's Social Service Law
Aims of the Women's Literacy Corps
Implementation
Achievements and difficulties
Conclusions
Appendix: Sketches of interviewees
Corps-women
Other interviewees
Notes
8 From Islamization to the Individualization of Women in Post-revolutionary Iran
Notes
9 The Politicization of Women's Religious Circles in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Neighbourhoods of piety
The city divided
The formation and the organization of the jalasa circles
Female preachers: aspirants to religious authority
The politicization of jalasa
Outline of the jalasa and techniques of the preachers
Tropes for re-presenting knowledge: Qur‘anic exegesis and ‘Islamic jokes’
Three different commentaries on the same Qur'anic verses
Commentary A
Commentary B
Commentary C
‘Islamic jokes’
Conclusion
Notes
10 Islam, Women and Civil Rights: The Religious Debate in the Iran of the 1990s
Introduction
Woman's image in the Islamic Order
Zanan's response
Granting Men the post of Director-General of the Family
Woman: a Worthless Animal
Conclusion
Notes
11 Perceptions of Gender Roles Among Female Iranian Immigrants in the United States
Introduction
The study
The sample
Profile of the respondents
Limitations of the study
Findings: shifting away from traditional values in the search for new roles and rights
Understanding women's issues
Equality of men and women
Feminism
Islam, the Islamic Government and control over women's lives
Love, sex and relationships
Dating, marriage, divorce and husbands
Views about the veil
Views about raising children
Women's status in the west and Iran
Positive view of women's status in Iran
Negative view of women's status in Iran
Mixed views on the status of women in Iran and the USA
Conclusion: Iranian women immigrants, defying stereotypes
Notes
12 Communities in Place and Communities in Space: Globalization and Feminism in Iran
Introduction
Historical background
Educational opportunities for Iranian women
Global feminism and Iranian women
The emergence of community in space
Globalization and reactive traditionalism
Iranian women as a part of the global feminist community
Conclusion
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