ISBN:
9780813024714
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (333 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman : Gender, State Policy, and Popular Culture, 1865-1946
DDC:
305.420955
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
''Combining the best of archival research, oral history, and textual analysis, . . . Amin's text offers new avenues of inquiry into the relationship between modern states and the lives of their female citizens.''--Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington ''An imaginative and well-documented study of the development of modern Iranian womanhood [that] demonstrates the developing nature of the patriarchal obstacles in the way of women's emancipation as much as it reveals the dynamism and complexity of the Women's Awakening
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables ix; Preface xi; 1. The "Women's Awakening" Reconsidered 1; 2. Tradition and Renewal 16; 3. Imagining the Modern Iranian Woman 48; 4. Unveiling and Its Discontents 80; 5. Renewal's Bride 114; 6. The Capable Woman 142; 7. The Limits of Emancipation 189; 8. Breaking with Male Guardianship 215; 9. The Legacy of the Women's Awakening 246; Notes 255; Bibliography 301; Index 313;
