In September of 2022, Iran seized global headlines as mass women-led protests erupted throughout the country. Iranians demanded gender equality and no less than the end of authoritarian governance. As such, the publication of the volume at hand, which explores women’s role in shaping the Islamic Republic of Iran, could hardly be timelier. While women under the Islamic Republic have been the subject of innumerable think pieces and news articles, the topic rarely gets the full academic treatment it deserves. Shirin Saeidi’s volume, therefore, is an important contribution to the study of gender politics in contemporary Iran and provides much-needed historical context for Iranians’ recent expressions of dissent. Indeed, several moments in Saeidi’s conclusion feel prophetic, such as when she notes that the state is often “playing catch up,” as societal transformations on gender equality happen in rapid and unpredictable ways, or when she posits that Iranian women are at...
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December 30 2023
Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State
Shirin Saeidi.
Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State
(Cambridge University Press
: Cambridge
, 2022
), 220 pp. ISBN: 978-1-3165-1576-1
Michelle Quay
Bustan: The Middle East Book Review (2023) 14 (2): 184–190.
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Michelle Quay; Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State. Bustan: The Middle East Book Review 30 December 2023; 14 (2): 184–190. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/bustan.14.2.0184
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