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In the eye of the storm : women in post-revolutionary Iran / edited by Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl.

Title
In the eye of the storm : women in post-revolutionary Iran / edited by Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl.
Publication
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Afkhami, Mahnaz
  • Friedl, Erika.
Description
xi, 227 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Uniform Title
Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
Subject
  • Women > Iran
  • Iran > Social conditions > 1979-1997
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-216) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Robin Morgan -- Introduction / Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl -- Women in post-revolutionary Iran : a feminist perspective / Mahnaz Afkhami -- Women's education in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Patricia J. Higgins and Pirouz Shoar-Ghaffari -- The status of women and female children in Iran : an update from the 1986 census / Akbar Aghajanian -- The Majles and women's issues in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Haleh Esfandiari -- Commoditization of sexuality and female labor participation in Islam : implications for Iran, 1960-90 / Fatemeh E. Moghadam -- Temporary marriage : an Islamic discourse on female sexuality in Iran / Shahla Haeri -- Images of women in classical Persian literature and the contemporary Iranian novel / Azar Naficy -- Veiled vision/powerful presences : women in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema / Hamid Nafig -- Sources of female power in Iran / Erika Friedl -- The legal status of women in the family in Iran / Sima Pakzad -- The Islamic penal code of the Islamic Republic of Iran : excerpts relating to women.
ISBN
  • 0815626339
  • 0815626347 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^93049077^
OCLC
29597898
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library