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The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran

Arzoo Osanloo

2009

Overview

InThe Politics of Women's Rights in Iran, Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian leaders transformed the state into an Islamic republic. At that time, the country's leaders used a renewed discourse of women's rights to symbolize a shift away from the excesses of Western liberalism. Osanloo reveals that the postrevolutionary republic blended practices of a liberal republic with Islamic principles of equality. Her ethnographic study illustrates how women's claims of rights emerge from a hybrid discourse that draws on both liberal individualism and Islamic ideals. Osanloo takes the reader on a journey through numerous sites where rights are being produced--including Qur'anic reading groups, Tehran's family court, and law offices--as she sheds light on the fluid and constructed nature of women's perceptions of rights. In doing so, Osanloo unravels simplistic dichotomies between so-called liberal, universal rights and insular, local culture.The Politics of Women's Rights in Irancasts light on a contemporary non-Western understanding of the meaning behind liberal rights, and raises questions about the misunderstood relationship between modernity and Islam.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Activism / African Americans / Anthropology / Ayesha Jalal / Chador / Civil and political rights / Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women / Courts / Cultural practice / Democratic republic / Demonstration (protest) / Dialogue Among Civilizations / Discourse / Dress code / Employment discrimination / Equality / Far-right politics / Feminism (international relations) / Gender role / Governance / Government / Human rights / Human rights movement / Imperialism / Individualism / Institution / International community / International human rights law / International law / International regime / International Women's Day / Iran / Iranian Revolution / Iranian studies / Islam / Islamic modernism / Islamic republic / Judith Butler / Khatami, Mu?ammad / Khatami, Muhammad / Khatemi, Mohammed / Khātamī, Muḥammad / Law and order (politics) / Legal history / Legislation / Liberal Muslim movements / Liberalism / Mahr / Modernism / Modernity / Ms. (magazine) / Multiculturalism / Nation state / National Association for the Advancement of Colored People / Oppression / Political agenda / Political climate / Political culture / Political defense / Political history / Political party / Politics / Politics of Iran / Radicalism (historical) / Relativism / Reza Shah / Rights / Ruhollah Khomeini / Sharia / Shia Islam / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social / Sociology / State actor / Subjectivity / That Girl / The woman question / U.S. sanctions against Iran / Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Violence against women / Watts riots / With Women / Women's rights / Women's rights -- Iran / Women's rights in Iran
• ISBN: 9780691135472, 0691135479, 9780691135465, 0691135460, 9781400833160, 1400833167