Women, Islam And Iran

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Discusses Islamic doctrine and the role of women. The Iranian Revolution and the lesser public role for women. Rise of fundamentalists. Pious women and gender-specific ideas of their place in Iranian society. Religious practices. Patriarchal view. Marginalization of women. Iranian women working in government agencies. Emergence of feminism. Shi'ia law and marriage.

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"Women, Islam and Iran

The Iranian revolution created a government which has been characterized as modern, nationalist, and Islamic-centered and as one which relegates women to a lesser public role and has deprived them of their traditional influence over private family matters (Yaganeh, 1993). Islamic doctrine expressly regards certain matters such as participation in the educational system and family upbringing as women's work. Islam also posits a major role for women in prayer and in transmitting the religious, moral, and ethical precepts of Islam itself to successive generations.

However, one critic, Nahid Yeganeh (1993) has suggested that women's status and their rights in the political, familial, and religious spheres have decreased since the Iranian revolution of 1979."

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