Axis of Hope by Catherine Z. Sameh PAPERBACK 9780295746326

Axis of HopeIranian Women's Rights Activism Across Borders\nAuthor(s): Catherine Z. Sameh, Piya Chatterjee\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295746326, 978-0295746326\nSynopsis\nPolitical tensions between Iran and the United States in the post-9/11 period and the Global War on Terror have set the stage for Iranian women's rights activists inside and outside Iran as they seek full legal equality under the Islamic Republic. Axis of Hope recounts activists' struggles through critical analysis of their narratives, including the One Million Signatures Campaign to End Discriminatory Law, the memoirs of human rights lawyer and Nobel Prizewinner Shirin Ebadi, and the life story of feminist Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh and her activist project ZananTV. Catherine Sameh examines how Iranian women's rights activists have cultivated ways of thinking of and being with each other that rupture the relentle.