...Adi Kuntsman; Sanaz Raji Adi Kuntsman and Sanaz Raji  mn  143 “ISRAELIS AND IRANIANS, GET A ROOM!” LOVE, HATE, AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS FROM THE “ISRAEL LOVES IRAN” AND “IRAN LOVES ISRAEL” FACEBOOK CAMPAIGNS...

... BOOK REVIEWS  Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic Lois Beck and Guity Nashat, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 288. ISBN 0252029372. Reviewed by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University...

...Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi; Marcia C. Inhorn; Hajiieh Bibi Razeghi-Nasrabad; Ghasem Toloo Infertility is a social onus for women in Iran, who are expected to produce children early within marriage. With its estimated 1.5 million infertile couples, Iran is the only Muslim country in which...

...Elham Gheytanchi Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran , Moallem Minoo . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Pp. ix, 269 . ISBN 0-520-24345-5 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s...

...Mastoureh Fathi Becoming Visible in Iran: Women in Contemporary Iranian Society , Honarbin-Holliday Mehri . London : Tauris Academic Studies . Pp. xii, 205 . ISBN 978-1-84511-878-5 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010...

...Shahla Talebi This paper journeys along the theoretical and historical trajectories of the early stage of post-revolutionary Iran, marked by an external war with Iraq and internal political suppression. Specifically, it grapples with the intricacies of loss, mourning, and survival in the meanders...

... thrive against the odds. The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran Arzoo Osanloo. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 258 pages. ISBN 978-0-691-13547-2. Reviewed by Elham Gheytanchi, Santa Monica College The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran...

...Soheila Alirezanejad As a microfinance project, an association of women in central Iran began to keep bees for honey in 2000. Initially they made money, which transformed some skeptical family members’ expectations, but, by 2004, most of the women had lost their bees and thus their source...

...-Sabet FOR CONCEIVING CITIZENS: WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF MOTHERHOOD IN IRAN mn onceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran by CFiroozeh Kashani-Sabet examines...

...- searchers and others interested in legal, popular culture, and quotidian dynamics in the realms of marriage and divorce in contemporary Egypt. Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran Amy Motlagh. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011...

...Alex Shams Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 The Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the mass mobilization of the Iran-Iraq War of 1980–88 generated a productive public debate about women’s roles in Iranian society. Crucial to this debate, the revolution...

...Nazanin Shahrokni Despite Iran’s geopolitical importance and mounting global concerns over its domestic and international practices, the state and its diverse mechanisms of rule have been largely neglected in mainstream sociology. To understand the state’s shifting modality of power between its...

... in the history of Shia Islam. I lived in Iran for fifteen months to explore the consequences for some of the howzevi (seminarian) women. I draw on their ethnography as students, mothers, daughters, wives, developers of social and educational programs for a postrevolution society, and vanguards of a state...

...Margaret Cool Root Helen of Tūs: Her Odyssey from Idaho to Iran , Bakhtiar Laleh Rose Bakhtiari . Chicago : Institute of Traditional Psychology , 2002 Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Cyrus Schayegh This article analyzes one of the first book-length Iranian treatises on female criminality, Qadisih Hijāzi’s Barrisi-yi jarā’im-i zan dar Irān (1962), to show how in the eyes of contemporary Iranian cultural critics and social scientists, female criminality was prefigured by gender...

...Eleanor Gao Being Modern in Iran , Adelkhah Fariba . New York : Columbia University Press , 1998 . 190 pgs. $19.50 . Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 152  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES and reshaped new definitions of womanhood...

...Afsaneh Najmabadi Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran (WWQI) is a digital archive of nineteenth-century Iranian culture that focuses on the lives of women and issues of gender. The initial inspiration for the project arose...

...Azadeh Kian [email protected] Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table Mona Tajali Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2022 288 pages. isbn 9781474499460 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...

...Rezvan Moghaddam [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 The women’s rights movement in Iran has a long and complex history. From the early twentieth century to the present day, women in Iran have fought for their rights...

...Golnesa Rezanezhad Pishkhani Abstract This article explores women’s agency in the production of handwoven rugs in both rural and urban areas of contemporary northern Iran. It examines research data through an intersectional lens to understand how various factors render subjects able or unable...