Cookies?
Library Header Image
LSE Research Online LSE Library Services

Women in place: the politics of gender segregation in Iran

Shahrokni, Nazanin ORCID: 0000-0002-3501-0677 (2019) Women in place: the politics of gender segregation in Iran. University of California Press, Oakland, CA. ISBN 9780520304284

Full text not available from this repository.

Identification Number: 10.2307/j.ctvqr1brb

Abstract

While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing. Women in Place offers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and women’s rights in contemporary Iran. Author Nazanin Shahrokni takes us onto gender-segregated buses, inside a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of stadiums where women are banned from attending men’s soccer matches. The Islamic character of the state, she demonstrates, has had to coexist, fuse, and compete with technocratic imperatives, pragmatic considerations regarding the viability of the state, international influences, and global trends. Through a retelling of the past four decades of state policy regulating gender boundaries, Women in Place challenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces and pushes us to contemplate the changing place of women in a social order shaped by capitalism, state-sanctioned Islamism, and debates about women’s rights. Shahrokni throws into sharp relief the ways in which the state strives to constantly regulate and contain women’s bodies and movements within the boundaries of the “proper” but simultaneously invests in and claims credit for their expanded access to public spaces.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304277/women-i...
Additional Information: © 2019 The Author
Divisions: Gender Studies
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Date Deposited: 02 Nov 2020 09:24
Last Modified: 28 Feb 2024 06:45
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107105

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item