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Paths Made by Walking
2024
Overview
What can women's scholastic pursuits tell us about what building
an Islamic state looks like for women who are loyal to its project?
And what can an ethnographic study of women who are using Islamic
education to transform their conditions in Iran teach us about our
own humanity?
Paths Made by Walking provides insight into these
questions by examining how Iranian women have participated in
Islamic education since the 1979 revolution. This groundbreaking
ethnography on Iranian howzevi (seminarian) women reveals how
ideologies of womanhood, institutions, and Islamic practices have
played a pivotal role in religiously conservative women's mobility
in the Middle East. Applying over a year of ethnographic fieldwork,
Amina Tawasil analyzes how the Islamic education of seminarian
women has propelled some of them into powerful positions in Iran,
from close ties with the state's supreme leader and chief justice
to membership in the Basij (voluntary military organization). At
the same time, these women often choose to remain \"hidden\" or to
otherwise follow practices that seem inscrutable or illogical from
a framework of politicized resistance. By centering the howzevi
women's senses of self and revealing their complex interpretations
of their beliefs, Tawasil offers a fresh perspective on forms of
feminine identity that do not always mirror supposedly universal
desires for recognition, autonomy, leadership, or authority.
Taking readers into the classrooms, living rooms, and compounds
where howzevi women participate in intellectual discourse,
Paths Made by Walking invites readers to reconsider their
conceptualizations of the women who support the Islamic Republic of
Iran.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780253070852, 0253070856, 0253070864, 9780253070869, 0253070880, 9780253070883
