This volume seeks to move away from the oppositional positions taken by Western and Muslim women and to provide a clear understanding of the possibilities and the limits that the process of reconstruction and reinterpretation of Islamic dictum can and does present for progress of women in Islamist countries. It is the contention of the author that women the world over seek similar goals and face similar problems, but specific circumstances and specific constraints dictate differing priorities and differing approaches in different contexts. If feminism is to return to a universalist position then it must gain an understanding of these differences. The book seeks to provide a step in the right direction by looking at the recent decades of struggle by Islamist women in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the increasing rapprochement between secularist and Islamist women in that country in pursuit of common goals.
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'...a very valuable and well-written study.' - Ulrike Freitag, Times Literary Supplement
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Haleh Afshar is Reader in Politics at the University of York.
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The widespread support given by Iranian women to Islam, and its revolutionary ardour in the 1970s, heralded what has become known as 'feminist fundamentalism' (Hoffman 1985; Ahmed 1992; Afshar 1994, 1996). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women parliamentarians, women representatives, secular women, temporary marriages, wages for housework, elite women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Zaneh Ruz, Islamic Republic, Nateq Nuri, Maryam Behruzi, Civil Code, Mohaqeq Damad, Azam Taleqani, Shahla Habibi, Council of Guardians, Ayatollah Seyed Mohamad Musavi Bojnurdi, Ayatollah Yazdi, Mehranguiz Kaar, Presidential Adviser, Speaker of the Majlis, Zahra Rahnavard, Ali Shariati, Azam Nuri, Faculty of Law, Faezeh Hashemi, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Hojatoleslam Abasali Amid Zanjani, Iran Bulletin, Ministry of Education, Tehran University, Javadi Amoli New!
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The widespread support given by Iranian women to Islam, and its revolutionary ardour in the 1970s, heralded what has become known as 'feminist fundamentalism' (Hoffman 1985; Ahmed 1992; Afshar 1994, 1996). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women parliamentarians, women representatives, secular women, temporary marriages, wages for housework, elite women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Zaneh Ruz, Islamic Republic, Nateq Nuri, Maryam Behruzi, Civil Code, Mohaqeq Damad, Azam Taleqani, Shahla Habibi, Council of Guardians, Ayatollah Seyed Mohamad Musavi Bojnurdi, Ayatollah Yazdi, Mehranguiz Kaar, Presidential Adviser, Speaker of the Majlis, Zahra Rahnavard, Ali Shariati, Azam Nuri, Faculty of Law, Faezeh Hashemi, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Hojatoleslam Abasali Amid Zanjani, Iran Bulletin, Ministry of Education, Tehran University, Javadi Amoli New!
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- Women and Adjustment Policies in the Third World (Women's Studies at York Series) by Afshar in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Dynamics Of Race And Gender: Some Feminist Interventions (Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present) by Haleh Afshar in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives by Mai Yamani in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Eye of the Storm by Catherine Jones in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Human Rights: Its Culture and Moral Confusions by Howard Taylor in Back Matter
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- Women in the Middle East: Past and Present by Nikki R. Keddie on 4 pages
- Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) by Reza Afshari in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Iran And The Surrounding World: Interactions In Culture And Cultural Politics by Nikki R. Keddie on page 229, and page 231
- Islam: Historical, Social, and Political Perspectives (Religion and Reason) by Jean Jacques Waardenburg in Back Matter
- Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect by Rosemary Radford Ruether in Back Matter
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