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The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy and Popular Culture, 1865-1946 - Hardcover
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The Women's Awakening Project in late 1930s Iran under Reza Shah Pahlavi is the focus of this historical look at the emergence of the modern concept of womanhood in Iran. Amin's extensive research confirms that Reza Shah's controversial attempt to forcibly westernize Iranian women, and not the pre-revolutionary 1970's, marked the turning point for ""the woman question"" in Iran. Drawing on a combination of archival data, oral history, diplomatic sources, and contemporary press reports, Amin's is the first book to explore the Women's Awakening Project in such detail. By illustrating Reza Shah's efforts both to emancipate and to control Iranian women, the book raises new questions about the relationship between the Iranian state and its female citizens. Amin breaks new ground in the study of Iranian history by examining the links between state policy, popular culture, and individual memory. This highly readable book also provides crucial background for understanding the current debate between ""hardliners"" and ""reformers"" in Iran.
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"Combining the best of archival research, oral history, and textual analysis,... Amin's text offers new avenues of inquiry into the relationship between modern states and the lives of their female citizens." - Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington "An imaginative and well-documented study of the development of modern Iranian womanhood [that] demonstrates the developing nature of the patriarchal obstacles in the way of women's emancipation as much as it reveals the dynamism and complexity of the Women's Awakening." - Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington University
About the Author
Camron Michael Amin, assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, is the director of the Modern Middle East Source Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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- PublisherUniversity Press of Florida
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0813024714
- ISBN 13 9780813024714
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages320
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