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Author Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh, 1967-

Title Conceiving citizens : women and the politics of motherhood in Iran / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Hygiene and Citizenship; 1. Healing Iran: Hygiene and Social Change in the Qajar Era; 2. Population Politics: Infant Mortality and the "Crisis" of Midwifery; PART TWO: Marriage, Maternity, and Sexuality; 3. From Celibacy to Companionship: The Evolution of Persian Marriages; 4. Sexual Mores, Social Lives: The Impact of Venereal Disease; 5. Giving Birth: Modern Nursing and Reproductive Politics; 6. Schooling Mothers: Patriotic Education and Women's "Renewal"; 7. Defrocking the Nation: Unveiling and the Politics of Dress
PART THREE: Politics and Reproduction8. From Mothers to Voters: Suffrage, Literacy, and Family Dynamics; 9. Managing Birth: Family Planning and Health Care; 10. Civil Liberties, Civic Wombs: Women in the Islamic Republic; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary The role of women in Iran has commonly been viewed solely through the lens of religion, symbolized by veiled females subordinated by society. This book aims to explain how the role of women has been central to national political debates in Iran. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, it examines issues impacting women's lives under successive regimes, including hygiene campaigns that cast mothers as custodians of a healthy civilization; debates over female education, employment, and political rights; conflicts between religion and secularism; the politics of dress; and government policies on birth control
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women -- Iran -- Social conditions
Motherhood -- Political aspects -- Iran
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Iran
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Iran
Women -- Health and hygiene.
Gender identity.
Women's rights.
Social history.
Women's Health
Gender Identity
Women's Rights
Sexual Behavior
Social Conditions
sex role.
social history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Women's rights
Social history
Gender identity
Motherhood -- Political aspects
Women -- Health and hygiene
Women -- Sexual behavior
Women -- Social conditions
Frau
Schwangerschaft
Mutterschaft
Soziale Stellung
Politik
SUBJECT Iran
Subject Iran
Iran
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010042522
ISBN 9780190254292
0190254297
9780199718931
0199718938