ISBN:
9780700715091
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (240 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Royal Asiatic Society Books
Parallel Title:
Print version Women, Religion and Culture in Iran
DDC:
305.420955
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Women, Shi'ism and Cuisine in Iran; 3 CMS Women Missionaries in Iran, 1891-1934: Attitudes Towards Islam and Muslim Women; 4 A Presbyterian Vocation to Reform Gender Relations in Iran: The Career of Annie Stocking Boyce; 5 Women and Journalism in Iran; 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; 7 Gender and the Army of Knowledge in Pahlavi Iran, 1968-1979
Description / Table of Contents:
8 From Islamization to the Individualization of Women in Post-revolutionary Iran9 The Politicization of Women's Religious Circles in Post-Revolutionary Iran; 10 Islam, Women and Civil Rights: The Religious Debate in the Iran of the 1990s; 11 Perceptions of Gender Roles Among Female Iranian Immigrants in the United States; 12 Communities in Place and Communities in Space: Globalization and Feminism in Iran; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
