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Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran
Minoo Moallem
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Description for Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister as keys to understanding the invention of the Islamic ummat as a modern fraternal community. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant binaries of modern and traditional, West and East, secular and religious, and civilized and barbaric. Between Warrior Brother ... Read more
Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister as keys to understanding the invention of the Islamic ummat as a modern fraternal community. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant binaries of modern and traditional, West and East, secular and religious, and civilized and barbaric. Between Warrior Brother ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520243453
SKU
V9780520243453
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About Minoo Moallem
Minoo Moallem is Professor and Chair of Women Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the coeditor of Between Women and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (1999).
Reviews for Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran
"A thoughtful consideration of ... masculinity in the constructed Muslim political community ... and the rise of an indigenous Islamist feminism." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes)