The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran /

The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran / / Arzoo Osanloo.

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In The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran, Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian leaders transformed the state into an Islamic republic. At that time, the country's leaders used a renewed discourse of women's rights to sym...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Osanloo, Arzoo,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. Human Rights and Cultural Practice
  • CHAPTER ONE. A Genealogy of "Women's Rights" in Iran
  • CHAPTER TWO. Producing States: Women's Participation and the Dialogics of Rights
  • CHAPTER THREE. Qur'anic Meetings: "Doing the Cultural Work"
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Courting Rights: Rights Talk in Islamico-Civil Family Court
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Practice and Effect: Writing/Righting the Law
  • CHAPTER SIX. Human Rights: The Politics and Prose of Discursive Sites
  • CONCLUSION. "Women's Rights" as Exhibition at the Brink of War
  • APPENDIX. The Iranian Marriage Contract
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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