Overview
This collection explores a wide range of issues surrounding women’s employment in Iran, tracing it’s evolution during the past five decades. Contributors address the influence of globlalization, the presence of an informal sector, and the accelerating trend in the size and diversity of the female workforce. Together these essays offer a nuanced and complex picture of Iranian women in the workplace, one that emphasizes the ways in which women have challenged Islamism to become agents of social transformation rather than victims of religious fundamentalism.
Full Product Details
Author: Roksana Bahramitash ,
Hadi Salehi Esfahani
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.10cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 23.70cm
Weight: 0.661kg
ISBN: 9780815632139
ISBN 10: 0815632134
Pages: 351
Publication Date: 30 April 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
No other book analyzes the economic role of Iranian women as comprehensively and empirically as this book. . . . It advances an understanding of the gender implications of development policies.-- Eric Hooglund, author of Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution: Political and Social Transition in Iran since 1979 The authors draw attention to the ways in which women's lives have been transformed, highlighting the impact of national and international forces rather than focusing solely on religion.-- Mahnaz Kousha, author of Voices from Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women
No other book analyzes the economic role of Iranian women as comprehensively and empirically as this book. . . . It advances an understanding of the gender implications of development policies.--Eric Hooglund, author of Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution: Political and Social Transition in Iran since 1979 The authors draw attention to the ways in which women's lives have been transformed, highlighting the impact of national and international forces rather than focusing solely on religion.--Mahnaz Kousha, author of Voices from Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women
Author Information
Roksana Bahramitash is Research Director of the Chair of Islam, Pluralism, and Globalization at the University of Montreal. Hadi Salehi Esfahani is professor of economics and director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
