Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State

ISBN-13: 9781316515761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Shirin Saeidi

Opis

A study of citizenship formation in post-1979 Iran, examining the centrality of non-elite women's participation in the process.

Recenzje

'Women and the Islamic Republic is a compelling account of how the Iran-Iraq war shaped the rights, roles, and responsibilities of non-elite Iranian women, a topic that has eluded much scholarship. Drawing from a unique archive, Saeidi underscores the importance of women's voices in shaping the post-revolutionary state and the meaning of citizenship.' Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington

Spis treści

1. State formation and citizenship: an investigation beyond a eurocentric gaze; 2. Reflecting on an idealised past: memory and women's rights struggles in post-revolutionary Iran; 3. Revolutionary citizens: the confrontation of power and spiritual acts of citizenship from 1980–88; 4. The body in isolation: morality and reconstruction of the nation in wartime; 5. The aftermath of war: wives and daughters of martyrs, and the post-1988 state; 6. Iran's hezbollah and citizenship politics: the surprises of islamisation projects in post-2009 Iran; 7. Conclusion: gendered citizenship and conditioning of the state.