Eighteen months after Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country’s women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) in a var

This book examines gender and the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran, documenting the changes in women’s lives and showing how women have now beco

Iranian women tell in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. The Islamic revolution of 1979 transformed all areas of Iranian life

A study of citizenship formation in post-1979 Iran, examining the centrality of non-elite women's participation in the process.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical development