Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of gro…
by Ansari, Sarah F. D., Martin, Vanessa
fromRoyal Asiatic Society books
Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of gro…
Om den moderne iranske kvindes liv
This text argues that Islamist women can and do have a feminist position that can be accommodated within post-modernist feminist discourse. The author uses the case of women in Iran to illustrate this point in detail. In that country, there is an increasing rapprochement between…
This volume addresses the controversial view that Islamist women can and do have a feminist position that can be accommodated within current post-modernist feminist discourse. The case of women in Iran has been used to illustrate this point in detail.
Western women's involvement in Persia dates from the mid-nineteenth century, when female adventurers and missionaries first encountered their veiled Muslim "sisters." Twentieth-century Western and state-sponsored Iranian feminists continued to use the image of the veiled woman a…
Extrait tiré de amazon.com : "Blending social scientific theories about feminism, social movements, and culture with the specifics of the Iranian situation, this volume examines changes in the structure of patriarchy from the 1960s to the present, by looking at domestic labor, e…