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| Author | : Fariba Eskandarian Anjeshesh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2020-12-18 |
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Iran. A nation mired in rumor and mystery for much of the Western world. What snippets of information work their way into the media and books might be considered appalling, especially when it comes to widespread discrimination and abuse. Fariba knows this all too well. She has been taught since birth that a woman's role is to be obedient to men. This is her story.Most of the world continues to evolve and advance basic human rights for all but women like Fariba are forced to look through the glass only. Theirs is a life of quiet servitude, a life where women can do no right and are expected to keep their mouths shut and obey. Any high points women have made during Iran's long and storied past is ignored, cast back into shadow without a fight or questioning. This male dominated society controls every aspect of life and it is the Iranian women who are meant to suffer. But why?Persian Women explores Iran's history as the author attempts to forge a new future of equality and hope. It is a detailed chronicle of the strides women have taken to change a corrupt system and earn their freedom. Persian Women is a gripping emotional experience told through the eyes of a woman who lived it. Written with the bitter truth, Fariba brings to light one of the greatest crises in the modern world. She shows unmitigated courage as she details the good and the bad of women living in Iran today. Any hope for the future must come from the women of today. Persian Women is a sparkling tribute to everyone who has ever stood up to oppression and shouted, no more.
| Author | : Clara Colliver Rice |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 1923 |
| Genre | : Iran |
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| Author | : Haleh Esfandiari |
| Publisher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1997-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780801856198 |
Iranian women tell in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. The Islamic revolution of 1979 transformed all areas of Iranian life. For women, the consequences were extensive and profound, as the state set out to reverse legal and social rights women had won and to dictate many aspects of women's lives, including what they could study and how they must dress and relate to men. Reconstructed Lives presents Iranian women telling in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. Through a series of interviews with professional and working women in Iran—doctors, lawyers, writers, professors, secretaries, businesswomen—Haleh Esfandiari gathers dramatic accounts of what has happened to their lives as women in an Islamic society. She and her informants describe the strategies by which women try to and sometimes succeed in subverting the state's agenda. Esfandiari also provides historical background on the women's movement in Iran. She finds evidence in Iran's experience that even women from "traditional" and working classes do not easily surrender rights or access they have gained to education, career opportunities, and a public role.
| Author | : Nahid Rachlin |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2007-12-27 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1101007702 |
For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept traditional Muslim mores, and dreamed of careers in literature and on the stage. Their lives changed abruptly when Pari was coerced by their father into marrying a wealthy and cruel suitor. Nahid narrowly avoided a similar fate, and instead negotiated with him to pursue her studies in America. When Nahid received the unsettling and mysterious news that Pari had died after falling down a flight of stairs, she traveled back to Iran--now under the Islamic regime--to find out what happened to her truest friend, confront her past, and evaluate what the future holds for the heartbroken in a tale of crushing sorrow, sisterhood, and ultimately, hope.
| Author | : Hamideh Sedghi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
| ISBN | : 9780511296574 |
Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to the consolidation of state power. Sedghi links politics and culture with economics to present an integrated analysis of the private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power.
| Author | : Afsaneh Najmabadi |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2005-04-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520242637 |
"This book is groundbreaking, at once highly original, courageous, and moving. It is sure to have a tremendous impact in Iranian studies, modern Middle East history, and the history of gender and sexuality."—Beth Baron, author of Egypt as a Woman "This is an extraordinary book. It rereads the story of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality in ways that no other scholars have done."—Joan W. Scott, author of Gender and the Politics of History
| Author | : Halleh Ghorashi |
| Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781590335529 |
A former Iranian leftist political activist (now an assistant professor of anthropology at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) explores issues of exile and identity among a group of Iranian women forced to leave Iran during or after the Iranian revolution of 1979, weaving in her own experiences as a political exile. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
| Author | : Nilofar Shidmehr |
| Publisher | : House of Anansi |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2019-02-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1487006039 |
Acclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr’s debut story collection is an unflinching look at the lives of women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada. The stories begin in 1978, the year before the Iranian Revolution. In a neighbourhood in Tehran, a group of affluent girls play a Cinderella game with unexpected consequences. In the mid 1980s, women help their husbands and brothers survive war and political upheaval. In the early 1990s in Vancouver, Canada, a single-mother refugee is harassed by the men she meets on a telephone dating platform. And in 2003, a Canadian woman working for an international aid organization is dispatched to her hometown of Bam to assist in the wake of a devastating earthquake. At once powerful and profound, Divided Loyalties depicts the rich lives of Iranian women and girls in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada; the enduring complexity of the expectations forced upon them; and the resilience of a community experiencing the turmoil of war, revolution, and migration.
| Author | : Yasmine Mahdavi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2021-09-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780578965000 |
| Author | : Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2021-02-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0815655169 |
Eighteen months after Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country’s women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) in a variety of capacities. Iran was divided into women of conservative religious backgrounds who supported the revolution and accepted some of the theocratic regime’s depictions of gender roles, and liberal women more active in civil society before the revolution who challenged the state’s male-dominated gender bias. However, both groups were integral to the war effort, serving as journalists, paramedics, combatants, intelligence officers, medical instructors, and propagandists. Behind the frontlines, women were drivers, surgeons, fundraisers, and community organizers. The war provided women of all social classes the opportunity to assert their role in society, and in doing so, they refused to be marginalized. Despite their significant contributions, women are largely absent from studies on the war. Drawing upon primary sources such as memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories, Farzaneh chronicles in copious detail women’s participation on the battlefield, in the household, and everywhere in between.
