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Conceiving Citizens

Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

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Conceiving Citizens

Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

While Iranian women have most frequently been viewed through the politics of veiling, Conceiving Citizens interprets modern Iranian politics and society through the history of women's health and sexuality. Drawing on archival documents and manuscript sources from Iran and elsewhere, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet illustrates how debates over hygiene, reproductive politics, and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries explained demographic trends and put women at the center of nationalist debates. Exploring women's lives under successive regimes, she chronicles the hygiene campaigns that cast mothers as custodians of a healthy civilization; debates over female education, employment, and political rights; government policies on contraception and population control; and tensions between religion and secularism.

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0195308867

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Martyrdom Street

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

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Martyrdom Street

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

Set during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the ensuing Iran-Iraq War of 1980–88, the novel Martyrdom Street chronicles the lives of three Iranian women, Fatemeh, Nasrin, and Yasaman. These ordinary women tell their intimate stories of love, loss, betrayal, and hope in intertwining narratives that unfurl simultaneously in the United States and Iran. Kashani-Sabet’s characters endure both the familiar struggles of family relationships and the disorienting effects of searing political upheavals. A mother and daughter come to terms with the burdens of separation imposed by politics and exile. A young woman grapples with the haunting memories of an assassination. The poignant confessions of these skillfully wrought characters give voice to the travails of two generations of Iranians and Iranian Americans.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815651171

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9780815651178

Heroes to Hostages

America and Iran, 1800–1988

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

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Heroes to Hostages

America and Iran, 1800–1988

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

It is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went awry. With careful attention to social and cultural as well as diplomatic developments, Kashani-Sabet shows that the rift did not originate in flashpoints of crisis, like the 1953 coup or the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but was instead long in the making. Drawing from a wealth of English and Persian-language sources, many of which were previously unavailable or unacknowledged, this book considers the relationship from the vantage point of Iranian society and the experiences of an evolving Iran that strived to accommodate American and great power politics. Following these two nations through wars, decolonization, and revolution, Kashani-Sabet presents an invaluable history of a diplomatic rivalry that informs geopolitics to this day.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009322125

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Heroes to Hostages

America and Iran, 1800–1988

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

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America and Iran, 1800–1988

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Outlines the evolving U.S.-Iran relationship from 1800 until 1988, highlighting the intersection of diplomatic, social, and cultural changes.

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1009322095

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Heroes to Hostages

America and Iran, 1800–1988

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America and Iran, 1800–1988

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Frontier Fictions

Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

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Frontier Fictions

Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions," or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their often fluctuating borders and the conflicts surrounding them, played a dominant role in defining the nation. On these borderlands, new ideas of citizenship and nationality were unleashed, refining older ideas of ethnicity. Kashani-Sabet maintains that land-based conceptions of countries existed before the advent of the modern nation-state. Her focus on geography enables her to explore and document fully a wide range of aspects of modern citizenship in Iran, including love of homeland, the hegemony of the Persian language, and widespread interest in archaeology, travel, and map-making. While many historians have focused on the concept of the "imagined community" in their explanations of the rise of nationalism, Kashani-Sabet is able to complement this perspective with a very tangible explanation of what connects people to a specific place. Her approach is intended to enrich our understanding not only of Iranian nationalism, but also of nationalism everywhere.

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Princeton University Press

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1400865077

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Frontier Fictions

Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

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Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946

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Martyrdom Street

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

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Gender in Judaism and Islam

Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet,Beth S. Wenger

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Gender in Judaism and Islam

Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage

By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet,Beth S. Wenger

Jewish and Islamic histories have long been interrelated. Both traditions emerged from ancient cultures born in the Middle East and both are rooted in texts and traditions that have often excluded women. At the same time, both groups have recently seen a resurgence in religious orthodoxy among women, as well as growing feminist movements that challenge traditional religious structures. In the United States, Jews and Muslims operate as minority cultures, carving out a place for religious and ethnic distinctiveness. The time is ripe for a volume that explores the relationship between these two religions through the prism of gender. Gender in Judaism and Islam brings together scholars working in the fields of Judaism and Islam to address a diverse range of topics, including gendered readings of texts, legal issues in marriage and divorce, ritual practices, and women's literary expressions and historical experiences, along with feminist influences within the Muslim and Jewish communities and issues affecting Jewish and Muslim women in contemporary society. Carefully crafted, including section introductions by the editors to highlight big picture insights offered by the contributors, the volume focuses attention on the theoretical innovations that gender scholarship has brought to the study of Muslim and Jewish experiences. At a time when Judaism and Islam are often discussed as though they were inherently at odds, this book offers a much-needed reconsideration of the connections and commonalties between these two traditions. It offers new insights into each of these cultures and invites comparative perspectives that deepen our understanding of both Islam and Judaism.

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NYU Press

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1479880337

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Book's by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

Conceiving Citizens

Conceiving Citizens

Martyrdom Street

Martyrdom Street

Heroes to Hostages

Heroes to Hostages

Heroes to Hostages

Heroes to Hostages

Heroes to Hostages

Heroes to Hostages

Frontier Fictions

Frontier Fictions

Frontier Fictions

Frontier Fictions

Martyrdom Street

Martyrdom Street

Gender in Judaism and Islam

Gender in Judaism and Islam

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