Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister
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Author_Minoo Moallem
brother and sister
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cultural studies
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feminism
fields of visibility
fundamentalism
gender studies
gendered citizenship
identity
invention
iran
iranian culture
iranian history
iranian society
islam
islamic fundamentalism
islamic iran
islamic nationalism
modern and tradition
modern fraternal community
modernism
modernity
muslim
nation building
nation state
patriarchal ideologies
patriarchy
politics
religion
religious studies
revolution
trans nationalism
transnational
visible
Product details
- ISBN 9780520243453
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister as keys to understanding the invention of the Islamic ummat as a modern fraternal community. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant binaries of modern and traditional, West and East, secular and religious, and civilized and barbaric. Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister responds to a number of important questions raised in connection with 9/11. The author considers how veiling intersects with other identity markers in nation-state building and modern formations of gendered citizenship. She shows how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are fed by a hybrid blend of images and myths of both pre-Islamic and Islamic Iran, as well as globally circulated patriarchal ideologies.
Minoo Moallem is Professor and Chair of Women Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the coeditor of Between Women and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (1999).
