Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War

by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh

Book Overview

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 variety of capacities. Iran was divided into women of conservative religious backgrounds who supported the revolution and accepted some of the theocratic regime's depictions of gender roles, and liberal women more active in civil society before the revolution who challenged the state's male-dominated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815637101
• ISBN13: 9780815637103
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.6" x 9.0"