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Minoo Moallem
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How Islamic nationalism and Western representations both build gendered images of Iranian men and women.
Haideh Moghissi
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A critique of scholarship that treats Islamist movements as good for women, drawing on Iran after 1979.
The Nobel laureate lawyer's account of defending women and children's rights in Iran after 1979.
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
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Clerics in Qom debate women's rights, and what these debates show about the possibilities of Islamic feminism.
Afsaneh Najmabadi
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An ethnography of trans and same-sex-desiring lives in Iran, and the state's policies on gender change.
A teacher's memoir of a secret class reading Western novels with young women in the Islamic Republic.
How Western and Iranian feminists have imagined Persian women, from the nineteenth century to the diaspora.
A history of marriage, sexuality and gender in Iran from the Qajar era to the Islamic Republic.
How Iranian women took part in, and were defined by, the constitutional revolution, modernisation and the Islamic revolution.
Afsaneh Najmabadi
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How ideas of beauty, love and gender were remade as Iran modernised in the nineteenth century.
