Women and Equality in Iran
«Women and Equality in Iran has all the hallmarks of a seminal work. Leila Alikarimi has managed to apply scholarship and feminist theory through her personal experience of gender discrimination and command of legal frameworks to produce an insightful and gripping account. The result is a captivating book that examines how the women movement in Iran has campaigned for change, for the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and for adopting legal protection for women by appealing to a less-patriarchal reading of Islam.»
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Iran's continued retention of discriminatory laws stands in stark contrast to the advances Iranian women have made in other spheres since the Revolution in 1979. Leila Alikarami here analyses the extent to which the actions of women's rights activists have led to a significant change in their legal status. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- I.B. Tauris
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 360
- ISBN
- 9780755641208
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«Women and Equality in Iran has all the hallmarks of a seminal work. Leila Alikarimi has managed to apply scholarship and feminist theory through her personal experience of gender discrimination and command of legal frameworks to produce an insightful and gripping account. The result is a captivating book that examines how the women movement in Iran has campaigned for change, for the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and for adopting legal protection for women by appealing to a less-patriarchal reading of Islam.»
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
«Alikarami’s work is significant, offering as it does a pragmatic strategy for achieving greater gender equality for Iranian women.»
Gender & Development