Women in Place
Regular price
€92.99
A01=Nazanin Shahrokni
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Nazanin Shahrokni
automatic-update
banned from mens soccer matches
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JBSF
Category=JBSF1
Category=JBSF11
Category=JF
challenges notions of iranian state
contemporary iran
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
gender segregated buses
gender segregation policies
gender segregation policies and womens rights
iranian women
Language_English
nineteen seventy nine islamic revolution
PA=Temporarily unavailable
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch
state policy regulating gender boundaries
women only park
womens life in iran
womens rights
Product details
- ISBN 9780520304277
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Dec 2019
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing. Women in Place offers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and women’s rights in contemporary Iran. Author Nazanin Shahrokni takes us onto gender-segregated buses, inside a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of stadiums where women are banned from attending men’s soccer matches. The Islamic character of the state, she demonstrates, has had to coexist, fuse, and compete with technocratic imperatives, pragmatic considerations regarding the viability of the state, international influences, and global trends. Through a retelling of the past four decades of state policy regulating gender boundaries, Women in Place challenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces and pushes us to contemplate the changing place of women in a social order shaped by capitalism, state-sanctioned Islamism, and debates about women’s rights. Shahrokni throws into sharp relief the ways in which the state strives to constantly regulate and contain women’s bodies and movements within the boundaries of the “proper” but simultaneously invests in and claims credit for their expanded access to public spaces.
Nazanin Shahrokni is Assistant Professor of Gender and Globalization at the London School of Economics. Prior to establishing an academic career, she worked as a journalist for Zanan, a feminist monthly in Tehran, Iran.
