Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic

Acknowledgments vii A Note on Transliterations ix Chronology xi Introduction 1(239) Guity Nashat 1. Marriage in the Qajar Period 37(26) Guity Nashat 2. Reflections in the Mirror-How Each Saw the Other: Women in the Nineteenth Century 63(22) Shireen Mahdavi 3. The Origins and Development of the Women's Movement in Iran, 1906-41 85(22) Mansoureh Ettehadieh 4. The Women's Organization of Iran: Evolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Change 107(29) Mahnaz Afkhami 5. The Role of Women Members of Parliament, 1963-88 136(27) Haleh Esfandiari 6. Women and Labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran 163(19) Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam 7. Labor-Force Participation of Women in Contemporary Iran 182(22) Amir Mehryar, Gholamali Farjadi, and Mohammad Tabibian 8. Sexuality, Rights, and Islam: Competing Gender Discourses in Postrevolutionary Iran 204(14) Ziba Mir-Hosseini 9. Rural Women's History: A Case Study from Boir Ahmad 218(22) Erika Friedl 10. Qashqa'i Women in Postrevolutionary Iran 240(39) Lois Beck Contributors 279(4) Index 283