In "The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran," Arzoo Osanloo
explores how Iranian women understand their rights. After the 1979
revolution, Iranian leaders transformed the state into an Islamic
republic. At that time, the country's leaders used a renewed
discourse of women's rights to symbolize a shift away from the
excesses of Western liberalism. Osanloo reveals that the
postrevolutionary republic blended practices of a liberal republic
with Islamic principles of equality. Her ethnographic study
illustrates how women's claims of rights emerge from a hybrid
discourse that draws on both liberal individualism and Islamic
ideals.
Osanloo takes the reader on a journey through numerous sites
where rights are being produced--including Qur'anic reading groups,
Tehran's family court, and law offices--as she sheds light on the
fluid and constructed nature of women's perceptions of rights. In
doing so, Osanloo unravels simplistic dichotomies between so-called
liberal, universal rights and insular, local culture. "The Politics
of Women's Rights in Iran" casts light on a contemporary
non-Western understanding of the meaning behind liberal rights, and
raises questions about the misunderstood relationship between
modernity and Islam.
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