The making of the modern Iranian woman: gender, state policy, and popular culture, 1865-1946
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Main Author: Amin, Camron Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville University Press of Florida c2002
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-312) and index
Machine generated contents note: 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
''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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 320 p.)
ISBN:0813031265
9780813031262

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