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WOMEN

Conception of gender roles
Reza Shah's "Women's Awakening Project"
By Camron Michael Amin
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Deer Table Legs
Poems by Katayoon Zandvakili
The University of Georgia Press, 1998

Erotic Liberalism : Women and Revolution in Montesquieu's Persian Letters
Diana J. Schaub / Hardcover / Paperback / Published 1995

Female Warriors of Allah : Women and the Islamic Revolution of Iran
Minou Reeves / Paperback / Published 1993

Feminism, Democracy and Islamism in Iran
By Nayereh Tohidi, professor of sociology and women's studies studies at the University of California, Los Angeles
Softcover, 139 pages, 1996, in Persian
Available from Ketabsara in Los Angeles: Tel: 310-477-4700 / Fax: 310-477-4546

Globalization, Gender, and Religion
The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts
By Jane Bayes and Nayereh Tohidi
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In a Voice of Their Own
A Collection of Stories by Iranian Women Written Since the Revolution of 1979
Farzin Yazdanfar (Compiler), Franklin Lewis (Compiler) / Paperback / Published 1996

In the Eye of the Storm : Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Mahnaz Afkhami, Erika Friedl (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1994

An Iranian Odyssey
Gohar Kordi / Paperback / Published 1993 Our Price: $13.95

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911 : Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, & the Origins of Feminism
Janet Afary / Paperback / Published 1996

Islam and Gender
by Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Law of Desire : Temporary Marriage in Shi'I Iran
Shahla Haeri / Hardcover / Published 1989

Like a Natural Woman
By Ziba Kashef


Marrige on Trial : A Study of Islamic Family Law; Iran and Morocco Compared
Ziba Mir-Hosseini / Hardcover / Published 1993

The Messenger Within
Discovering Love and Wholeness Through Meditation
By Soraya Susan Behbehani


Nature's Secret for Health and Beauty
By Minoo Golnazar

Neither East Nor West
One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran
By Christiane Bird

The Peacock Princess
The True-Life Story of an American Woman and Her Daughters, Trapped Among Decadent Iranian Aristocracy in Royal and revolutionary Iran
Sara Harris, Barbara Mosallai Bell / Hardcover / Published 1995

A Persian Requiem
By Simin Daneshvar
Translated by Roxane Zand
The first published novel by an Iranian woman and one of the most widely read novels in Iran.

Populism and Feminism in Iran : Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement Vol 1
Haideh Moghissi, Haideit Moghissi / Hardcover / Published 1995 / Paperback / Published 1996

Refashioning Iran
Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography
By Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
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Reconstructed Lives : Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution
Halah Isfandiyari, Haleh Esfandiari / Hardcover / Paperback/ Published 1997

Satan's Stones
Muniru Ravanipur, et al / Hardcover / Published 1996

Scent of Saffron : Three Generations of an Iranian Family
Rouhi Shafii / Paperback / Published 1997

Shariati on Shariati and the Muslim Woman
Laleh Bakhtiar / Paperback / Published 1996

Stories by Iranian Women Since the Revolution
Soraya Paknazar Sullivan (Translator) / Published 1991

Sufi Women of America : Angels in the Making
Laleh Bakhtiar / Paperback / Published 1996

Unveiled : One Woman's Nightmare in Iran
Cherry Mosteshar / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1997

Veils and Words : The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers
Farzaneh Milani / Hardcover / Paperback / Published 1992

A Walnut Sapling on Masih's Grave
And Other Stories by Iranian Women
John Green (Editor), Farzin Yazdanfar / Paperback / Published 1993

Women and Fundamentalism
Islam and Christianity
By Shahin Gerami

Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran
By Parvin Paidar


The Women of Deh Koh : Lives in an Iranian Village
Erika Friedl / Paperback / Published 1991

Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC
By Maria Brosius
Oxford University Press (1996)
Women in the Middle East
Restoring Women to History
By Guity Nashat & Judith E. Tucker

Women Without Men
A novella
By Shahrnush Parsipur
(Kamran Talattof Jocelyn Sharlet, translators)

Zanaan Saraayandeh-ye Mo'aaser
Selections from a book by Parvin Shakiba
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