Between warrior brother and veiled sister : Islamic fundamentalism and the politics of patriarchy in Iran /

"Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moa...

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Main Author: Moallem, Minoo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Table of Contents:
  • Fields of visibility
  • The civic body and the order of the visible
  • The tragic paradox of revolution
  • The Sacralization of politics and the desacralization of religion
  • Transnationalism, feminism, and fundamentalism.