Conceiving Citizens by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
The role of women in Iran has commonly been viewed solely through the lens of religion, symbolized by veiled females subordinated by society. In this work, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, an Iranian-American historian, aims to explain how the role of women has been central to national political debates in Iran. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the book examines issues impacting women's lives under successive regimes, including hygiene campaigns that cast mothers as custodians of a healthy civilization; debates over female education, employment, and political rights; conflicts between religion and secularism; the politics of dress; and government policies on contraception and population control. Among the topics she will examine are the development of a women's movement in Iran, perhaps most publicly expressed by Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. The narrative comes up to the present, looking at reproductive rights, the spread of AIDS, and fashion since the Iranian Revolution.
Conceiving citizens is to be welcomed as a contribution to a better understanding of how both modern medicine and nationalist concern impacted on women's education, employment, civil and political rights.. The book is well documented, well written, and though it will be of significant interest to specialists in Iranian women's history, it is also recommendable to scholars of modern and contemporary Iranian society and to students of gender and sexuality in the Middle East. * Anna Vanzan, Journal of Social History *
Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation (Princeton UP, 2000).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195308877 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195308875 |
| Title | Conceiving Citizens |
| Author | Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2011-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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