The politics of women's rights in Iran

Main Author: Osanloo, Arzoo, 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10442057
Table of Contents:
  • A genealogy of "women's rights" in Iran
  • Producing states: women's participation and the dialogics of rights
  • Qur'anic meetings: "doing the cultural work"
  • Courting rights: rights talk in Islamico-civil family court
  • Practice and affect: writing/righting the law
  • Human rights: the politics and prose of discursive sites
  • Conclusion "women's rights" as exhibition at the brink of war.