Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic / edited by Lois Beck and Guity Nashat. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004. - xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Marriage in the Qajar period / Guity Nashat -- Reflections in the mirror, how each saw the other : women in the nineteenth century / Shireen Mahdavi -- The origins and development of the women's movement in Iran, 1906-41 / Mansoureh Ettehadieh -- The Women's Organization of Iran : evolutionary politics and revolutionary change / Mahnaz Afkhami -- The role of women members of parliament, 1963-88 / Haleh Esfandiari -- Women and labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam -- Labor-force participation of women in contemporary Iran / Amir Mehryar, Gholamali Farjadi, and Mohammad Tabibian -- Sexuality, rights, and Islam : competing gender discourses in postrevolutionary Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Rural women's history : a case study from Boir Ahmad / Erika Friedl -- QashqaiÌ women in postrevolutionary Iran / Lois Beck.

0252029372 (alk. paper) 0252071891 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Women--History.--Iran
Women--Iran--Biography.
Women in development--History.--Iran
Women in politics--History.--Iran
Women's rights--History.--Iran

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