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Article: Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-century Iran.(Review)
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-century Iran by Parvin Paidar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.vxi + 401, bibliography, index and illustrations. 16.50 [pounds sterling] (paperback).
Although the position of women in Iran has evolved and changed over the past centuries, Parvin Paidar's work demonstrates how the state, whether secular and Westernizing or religious and Islamizing, has sought to guard its authority over women, and retain the initiative over the issues that concern them. As a result the state has ensured that the organizations they have formed and their attempts to expand into the public sphere have been carefully ...