Women and Politics in Iran
：Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling
Publication subTitle ：Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling
Author： Hamideh Sedghi;
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 2007
E-ISBN: 9781316938102
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521835817
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780521835817
Subject： D Political and Legal
Keyword： 政治、法律
Language： ENG
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Description
The relations between gender and politics in Iran's development over the past 100 years. This is a groundbreaking analysis of the relations between gender and politics in Iran's development over the past 100 years. Sedghi discusses the private and public lives of women of different classes and analyzes women's work and their mode of resistance to state power. This is a groundbreaking analysis of the relations between gender and politics in Iran's development over the past 100 years. Sedghi discusses the private and public lives of women of different classes and analyzes women's work and their mode of resistance to state power. 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. Part I. Women in Early Twentieth Century Iran: 1. The Qajar dynasty, patriarchal households, and women; Part II. Women in the Kingdom of the Peacock Throne: 2. The Pahlavi dynasty as a centralizing patriarchy; 3. Economic development and the gender division of labor; 4. The state and gender: repression, reform, and family legislation; 5. Gender and the state; Part III. Women in the Islamic Republic: 6. The 1979 revolution and the restructuring of patriarchy; 7. The gender division of labor; 8. Politics and women's resistance. 'A very illuminating historical account of the ways in which gender has played a central role in Iranian politics. The processes of veiling, unveiling and reveiling provide a rich background around which much more is analyzed - from the efforts to control women's sexuality, to factors affecting women's labor force participation, to the active and important role played by women's agency at many levels. Sedghi has accumulated an enormous amount of information that documents Iran's development path and the historical, political, and cultural contexts that have shaped women's lives, gender dynamics and gender politics throughout the twentieth century and up to the present. The book is likely to become a key text for anyone interested not only in Iran and the Muslim world, but also in the wider issues of gender and development and of feminist politics.' Lourdes Benería, Cornell University 'It is impossible to imagine more timely circumstances for the publication of Hamideh Sedghi's groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Iranian women's studies. Predicated on an illustrious and unparalleled record of solid scholarship, Hamideh Sedghi's Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling is a comprehensive study of the vicissitude of the status of women in modern Iran from the Qajar period in the nineteenth century to the Islamic Republic in the twenty-first century. At a time that a lucrative and obscene genre of women's mémoire has hijacked and abused the legitimate cause of Iranian w
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