Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran.

Introduction: Marginalisation of gender and approaches to women in Middle Eastern studies Part I. The Discourse of Modernity: 1. Social diversity on women's issues in nineteenth-century Iran 2. Women and the ear of constitutionalism 3. Women and the era of nation building 4. Women and the era of nationalism 5. Women and the era of modernisation Part II. The Discourse of Revolution: 6. Gender as a revolutionary discourse 7. Women and the political transition from modernisation to Islamisation Part III. The Discourse of Islamisation: 8. The Islamic construction of family 9. Women and national participation in the Islamic Republic 10. Policing the family Conclusion.