Women and the Islamic Republic - 9781009013000

Name: Women and the Islamic Republic - 9781009013000
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Women and the Islamic RepublicHow Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State\nAuthor(s): Shirin Saeidi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009013000, 978-1009013000\nSynopsis\nBased on extensive interviews and oral histories as well as archival sources, Women and the Islamic Republic challenges the dominant masculine theorizations of state-making in post-revolutionary Iran. Shirin Saeidi demonstrates that despite the Islamic Republic's non-democratic structures, multiple forms of citizenship have developed in post-revolutionary Iran. This finding destabilizes the binary formulation of democratization and authoritarianism which has not only dominated investigations of Iran, but also regime categorizations in political science more broadly. As non-elite Iranian women negotiate or engage with the state's gendered citizenry regime, the Islamic Republic is forced to remake, oftentimes haphazard.