Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran
A Iran, Gender Studies, Feminism book. 'Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran' by Nima Naghibi is a rather short...
Western women’s involvement in Persia dates from the mid-nineteenth century, when female adventurers and missionaries first encountered their veiled Muslim “sisters.” Twentieth-century Western and state-sponsored Iranian feminists continued to use the image of the veiled woman as the embodiment of backwardness. Yet, following the 1979 revolution, indigenous Iranian feminists became more vocal in their resistance to this characterization. In Rethinking Global Sisterhood, Nima Naghibi makes powerful connections among feminism, imperialism, and the discourses of global sisterhood. Naghibi investigates topics including the state-sponsored Women’s Organization of Iran and the involvement of feminists such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem in the Iranian feminism movement before and during the 1979 revolution. With a potent analysis of cinema, she examines the veiled woman in the films of Tahmineh Milani, Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Kim Longinotto, and Mahnaz Afzali. At a time when Western relations...
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- Pages: 232 pages
- ISBN: 9780816647606 / 816647607
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best book on global feminism I've ever read, really owns all the noobs (as we say here on the internet) 'Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran' by Nima Naghibi is a rather short scholarly work on the history of feminism in Iran, especially seen in relation to Western feminism.The book is divided into four main parts, visualized in the book as individual chapters. These parts are preceded by the Preface and Introduction...
