Gender in Contemporary Iran: Pushing the Boundaries

This book examines gender and the transformation of contemporary Iran, documenting the changes in women's lives and challenging the idea that the revolution put back the clock for women. Bringing together the post-2001 field research of scholars who have worked in Iran to document and examine how different Iranian groups and classes are negotiating, resisting, and pressing for political and social change, the book shows how women have now become agents of social change rather than victims.The original research provides an important basis for understanding social and political developments in a country that has been a focus of international attention for much of the last decade. The objective of this book is not to assess the contentious arguments over whether Iran may have a covert nuclear program, but rather to explore the complexity of a society that is portrayed in monolithic stereotypes in the international media.