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Contents Acknowledgements Transliteration and references Introduction Part I. Women in Early Twentieth Century Iran 1. The Qajar Dynasty, Patriarchal Households and Women Veiling Women's Work Religion and Women National and International Politics The Constitutional Revolution and Women's Participation Reforms and Men's, Not Women's Suffrage Indigenous Feminism Part II. Women in the Kingdom of the Peacock Throne 2. The Pahlavi Dynasty As A Centralizing Patriarchy Reza Shah: Power and Politics State-Building, Westernization, Repression and Emasculation Women's Work and Education and Legal Law Reforms Independent Women's Activities and "State Feminism" Unveiling World War Two, Dynastic Changes and New Feminisms Defeat of Women's Suffrage, Mosaddegh and the CIA Coup 3. Economic Development and the Gender Division of Labor Integration Into World Capitalism The Shah and Economic Development Urbanization The Gender Division of Labor: the Household and the Labor Force Division of Labor by Major Economic Sectors and Class: the Industrial and Service Sectors Division of Labor by Marital Status and Life Cycle 4. The State and Gender: Repression, Reform and Family Legislation The State and Women State-Religion Conflict The White Revolution and the Opposition The Family Protection Laws Adultery, Rape and Prostitution in Penal Code Women and Labor Legislation 5. Gender and the State Women's Suffrage (1963--1979) Citizenship and Its Various Appeals Representaton, Elections and Political Inequality Women's Agency Conformist Women: The Queen Bees Elite Women Women's Organization of Iran (1966--1979) Women in the State Apparatus (The National Iranian Radio & Television) Nonconformist Women as Political Actors and Reactors Secular Left Women Secular Independent Women Women of the Religious Opposition Part III.. Women in the Islamic Republic 6. The 1979 Revolution and the Restructuring of Patriarchy The Revolution and Its Discontents State-building, Islamization and Gender Reveiling Sexuality, Mobilization and Gender Police 7. The Gender Division of Labor International Political Economy and Economic Changes Shifts in the Gender Division of Labor Women's Labor The Household The Marketplace The Informal Sector Contradictions 8. Politics and Women's Resistance Women's Resistance Opponent Women Revolutionaries Rebels Reformers Proponent Women Devouts Trespassers CONCLUSION Glossary Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Women -- Iran -- Social conditions.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law) -- Iran.
Women's rights -- Iran.
Feminism -- Iran.
Sex role -- Iran.