Women and politics in Iran : veiling, unveiling, and reveiling

摘要: Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after 1979 revolution? This question forms basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original unprecedented contribution politics Middle Eastern studies. Using primary secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency relation state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over at centre political struggle between secular religious forces demonstrates that control identities, sexuality, labor has been central consolidation links culture with economics present an integrated private public lives different classes their modes resistance