{"product_id":"the-politics-of-womens-rights-in-iran-9780691135472","title":"The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Arzoo Osanloo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Human Rights\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Women's Rights in Iran\u003c\/i\u003e, Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian leaders transformed the state into an Islamic republic. At that time, the country's leaders used a renewed discourse of women's rights to symbolize a shift away from the excesses of Western liberalism. Osanloo reveals that the postrevolutionary republic blended practices of a liberal republic with Islamic principles of equality. Her ethnographic study illustrates how women's claims of rights emerge from a hybrid discourse that draws on both liberal individualism and Islamic ideals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Osanloo takes the reader on a journey through numerous sites where rights are being produced--including Qur'anic reading groups, Tehran's family court, and law offices--as she sheds light on the fluid and constructed nature of women's perceptions of rights. In doing so, Osanloo unravels simplistic dichotomies between so-called liberal, universal rights and insular, local culture. \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Women's Rights in Iran\u003c\/i\u003e casts light on a contemporary non-Western understanding of the meaning behind liberal rights, and raises questions about the misunderstood relationship between modernity and Islam.","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47610315440279,"sku":"9780691135472","price":3871.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780691135472.webp?v=1775064136","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-politics-of-womens-rights-in-iran-9780691135472","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}