Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
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Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran

An Intersectional Approach to National Identity

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eBook - ePub

Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran

An Intersectional Approach to National Identity

About this book

Winner of the Latifeh Yarshater book prize 2024

Covering the Pahlavi modern nation-state as well as the Islamic regime, this book examines the crucial shifts that affected Sunnite and subaltern women once Shi'ism became the state religion after the Iranian Revolution.

Focusing on women in the Baluchistan and Golestan provinces of Iran, Azadeh Kian analyses and explores issues of cultural racialization, ethno-centrism, Shi'a centrism, and patriarchal and chauvinistic ideologies in Iranian society propagated by the state and sustained by its policies. Based on quantitative and qualitative surveys taken throughout Iran, comprised of over 7,000 married women and 100 interviews with a sample of Sunnite and subaltern Persian women, Kian reveals how social hierarchy and power relations based on gender, class, ethnicity and religion operate. She argues that women have been at the heart of the process of national and ethnic re-construction as women, as potential mothers, are expected to reproduce national and ethnic boundaries. Kian argues that by examining the family institution as a site of power, analysing family dynamics as well as women's everyday lives, the politics of ordinary Iranians and the relationship between state and society can be better understood. Kian argues that the time is ripe to achieve a non-hegemonic definition of Iranian national identity, through acknowledgement of gender, class, ethnic, and religious diversity and plurality of experiences of oppression and injustice.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780755650255
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780755650279

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Maps
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Crafting Iranian Nationalism: Intersectionality of Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion
  12. 2 Baluchistan
  13. 3 Golestan
  14. 4 Structural Transformations: Impacts on Islamic Gender Regime and Social Relations of Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion
  15. 5 Gender and Work, Gender and Politics
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Imprint

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