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Veiled Employment

Islamism and the Political Economy of Women's Employment in Iran

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Pub Date Mar 07 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012

Nonfiction (Adult)

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This collection explores a wide range of issues surrounding women's employment in Iran, tracing its 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.

This collection explores a wide range of issues surrounding women's employment in Iran, tracing its evolution during the past five decades. Contributors address the influence of globlalization, the...

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Advance Praise

"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

"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."

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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9780815632139
PRICE 34.95
PAGES 360

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